CELEX: 62017TA0766
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-766/17: Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2019 — Eglo Leuchten v EUIPO — Di-Ka (Lamp) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a lighting fitting — Ground for invalidity — Earlier Community design — Individual character — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

18.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 103/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2019 — Eglo Leuchten v EUIPO — Di-Ka (Lamp)
      (Case T-766/17) (1)
      
      ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a lighting fitting - Ground for invalidity - Earlier Community design - Individual character - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))
      (2019/C 103/44)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Eglo Leuchten GmbH (Pill, Austria) (represented by: H. Lauf, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Di-Ka Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG (Arnsberg, Germany) (represented by: M.-H. Hoffmann, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 26 September 2017 (Case R 738/2016-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Eglo Leuchten and Di-Ka Vertriebs.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Eglo Leuchten GmbH to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 22, 22.1.2018.