CELEX: 62008TN0153
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-153/08: Action brought on 25 April 2008 — Shenzhen Taiden Industrial v OHIM — Bosch Security Systems (design of communications equipment)

21.6.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 158/21
            
         Action brought on 25 April 2008 — Shenzhen Taiden Industrial v OHIM — Bosch Security Systems (design of communications equipment)
   (Case T-153/08)
   (2008/C 158/35)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Shenzhen Taiden Industrial Co., Ltd (Shenzhen, China) (represented by: M. Hartmann, M. Helmer, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Bosch Security Systems BV (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
   Form of order sought
   
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               Annul the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 11 February 2008 in case R 1437/2006-3; and
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs, including those incurred in the proceedings before the Board of Appeal.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Registered Community design subject of the application for a declaration of invalidity: A design for the product ‘communications equipment’ — registered Community design No 214903-0001
   
      Proprietor of the Community design: The applicant
   
      Party requesting the declaration of invalidity of the Community design: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Design produced as evidence by the party requesting the declaration of invalidity: An earlier design made available to the public by Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV registered as an international design under No DM/055655
   
      Decision of the Invalidity Division: Dismissal of the application for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulment of the decision of the Invalidity Division and declaration that the contested design is invalid
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 63(1) of Council Regulation No 6/2002 as the Third Board of Appeal relied on alleged facts presented by the party requesting the declaration of invalidity for which no evidence was submitted; infringement of Articles 4(1) and 6(1) of Council Regulation No 6/2002 as the Third Board of Appeal erred in holding that the contested design lacked individual character and failed to assess and compare the designs at hand from the point of view of an informed user.