CELEX: 62017TA0651
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-651/17: Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2018 — Sata v EUIPO — Zhejiang Auarita Pneumatic Tools (Spray gun for paint) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a paint spray gun — Earlier Community designs — Ground for invalidity — Informed user — Designer’s degree of freedom — Individual character — Saturation of the state of the art — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Expediency of oral proceedings — Article 64(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 — Duty to state reasons — Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)

4.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/37
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2018 — Sata v EUIPO — Zhejiang Auarita Pneumatic Tools (Spray gun for paint)
      (Case T-651/17) (1)
      
      ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a paint spray gun - Earlier Community designs - Ground for invalidity - Informed user - Designer’s degree of freedom - Individual character - Saturation of the state of the art - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Expediency of oral proceedings - Article 64(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 - Duty to state reasons - Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002))
      (2019/C 44/47)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Sata GmbH & Co. KG (Kornwestheim, Germany) (represented by: K. Manhaeve and G. Glas, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Zhejiang Auarita Pneumatic Tools Co. Ltd (Zhejiang, China)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 July 2017 (Case R 914/2016-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Zhejiang Auarita Pneumatic Tools and Sata.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Sata GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 402, 27.11.2017.