CELEX: 62018TA0074
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-74/18: Judgment of the General Court of 13 June 2019 — Visi/one v EUIPO — EasyFix (Door hanger for vehicles) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a door hanger for vehicles — Earlier design — Proof of the disclosure — Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Ground for invalidity — Lack of individual character — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — No different overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002)

5.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/42
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 June 2019 — Visi/one v EUIPO — EasyFix (Door hanger for vehicles)
      (Case T-74/18) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a door hanger for vehicles - Earlier design - Proof of the disclosure - Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Ground for invalidity - Lack of individual character - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - No different overall impression - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002)
      (2019/C 263/47)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Visi/one GmbH (Remscheid, Germany) (represented by: H. Bourree and M. Bartz, acting as Agents)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Hanne and D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: EasyFix GmbH (Vienna, Austria)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 December 2017 (Case R 1424/2016-3) relating to invalidity proceedings between EasyFix and Visi/one.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Visi/one GmbH and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 112, 26.3.2018.