CELEX: 62021TA0001
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-1/21: Judgment of the General Court of 2 March 2022 — Fabryki Mebli ‘Forte’ v EUIPO — Bog-Fran (Furniture) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing an item of furniture — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Disclosure of the earlier design — Article 7(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 — Decision adopted following the annulment by the General Court of an earlier decision — Res judicata)

25.4.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/29
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 2 March 2022 — Fabryki Mebli ‘Forte’ v EUIPO — Bog-Fran (Furniture)
      (Case T-1/21) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing an item of furniture - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Disclosure of the earlier design - Article 7(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 - Decision adopted following the annulment by the General Court of an earlier decision - Res judicata)
      (2022/C 171/37)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Fabryki Mebli ‘Forte’ S.A. (Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland) (represented by: H. Basiński, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Bog-Fran sp. z o.o. sp.k. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: M. Mikosza and E. Guissart, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 October 2020 (Case R 595/2020-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Bog-Fran and Fabryki Mebli ‘Forte’.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Fabryki Mebli ‘Forte’ S.A. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Bog-Fran sp. z o.o. sp.k..
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 62, 22.2.2021.