CELEX: 62019TA0823
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-823/19: Judgment of the General Court of 20 October 2021 — JMS Sports v EUIPO — Inter-Vion (Spiral hair elastics) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered community design representing a spiral hair elastic — Disclosure of the earlier designs — Disclosure on the Internet — Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Equality of arms — Evidence submitted for the first time before the General Court)

13.12.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 502/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 October 2021 — JMS Sports v EUIPO — Inter-Vion (Spiral hair elastics)
      (Case T-823/19) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered community design representing a spiral hair elastic - Disclosure of the earlier designs - Disclosure on the Internet - Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Equality of arms - Evidence submitted for the first time before the General Court)
      (2021/C 502/31)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: JMS Sports sp. z o.o. (Łódź, Poland) (represented by: D. Piróg and J. Słupski, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: E. Śliwińska and D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Inter-Vion S.A. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: T. Grucelski and T. Gawliczek, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 September 2019 (Case R 1573/2018-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Inter-Vion and JMS Sports.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders JMS Sports sp. z o.o. to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Inter-Vion S.A.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 54, 17.2.2020.