CELEX: 62019TA0574
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-574/19: Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2020 — Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO — Mystic Products and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered community design representing fluid distribution equipment — Ground for invalidity — Non-compliance with requirements for protection — Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function — Article 8(1) of Regulation No 6/2002)

25.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 28/41
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2020 — Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO — Mystic Products and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment)
      (Case T-574/19) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered community design representing fluid distribution equipment - Ground for invalidity - Non-compliance with requirements for protection - Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function - Article 8(1) of Regulation No 6/2002)
      (2021/C 28/62)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tinnus Enterprises LLC (Plano, Texas, United States) (represented by: A. Odle and R. Palijama, lawyers, and J. St Ville, Barrister)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Koopman International BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: G. van den Bergh and B. Brouwer, lawyers)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Mystic Products Import & Export, SL (Badalona, Spain)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 June 2019 (Case R 1002/2018-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between, on the one hand, Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International and, on the other, Tinnus Enterprises.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Tinnus Enterprises LLC to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Koopman International BV.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 337, 7.10.2019.