CELEX: 62021TA0084
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-84/21: Judgment of the General Court of 1 December 2021 — Jieyang Defa Industry v EUIPO — Mattel (Doll’s Head) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a doll’s head — Earlier design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Degree of freedom of the designer — No different overall impression — Articles 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

31.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 1 December 2021 — Jieyang Defa Industry v EUIPO — Mattel (Doll’s Head)
      (Case T-84/21) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a doll’s head - Earlier design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Degree of freedom of the designer - No different overall impression - Articles 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
      (2022/C 51/43)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Jieyang Defa Industry Co. Ltd (Jieyang, People’s Republic of China) (represented by: C. Bercial Arias and F. Codevelle, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Mattel, Inc. (El Segundo, California, United States) (represented by: A. Pompe-Ciszewska and P. Mleczak, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 December 2020 (Case R 2021/2019-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Mattel and Jieyang Defa Industry Co.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Jieyang Defa Industry Co. Ltd to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 110, 29.3.2021.