CELEX: 62016TA0424
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-424/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2018 — Gifi Diffusion v EUIPO — Crocs (Footwear) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing footwear — Earlier Community design — Grounds for invalidity — Duty to state reasons — Article 62 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Ground raised by the Board of Appeal of its own motion — Powers of the Board of Appeal — Article 63(1) of Regulation No 6/2002)

30.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 152/29
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2018 — Gifi Diffusion v EUIPO — Crocs (Footwear)
   (Case T-424/16) (1)
   
   ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing footwear - Earlier Community design - Grounds for invalidity - Duty to state reasons - Article 62 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Ground raised by the Board of Appeal of its own motion - Powers of the Board of Appeal - Article 63(1) of Regulation No 6/2002))
   (2018/C 152/35)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gifi Diffusion (Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France) (represented by: C. de Chassey, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Crocs, Inc. (Niwot, Colorado, United States) (represented by: H. Seymour, L. Cassidy, J. Guise and D. Knight, Solicitors, N. Hadjadj Cazier, M. Berger and H. Haouideg, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 April 2016 (Case R 37/2015-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Gifi Diffusion and Crocs.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 25 April 2016 (Case R 37/2015-3) concerning invalidity proceedings between Gifi Diffusion and Crocs, Inc.;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by Gifi Diffusion in the proceedings before the General Court;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Crocs to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 392, 24.10.2016.