CELEX: 62014TA0334
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-334/14: Judgment of the General Court of 29 October 2015 — Roca Sanitario v OHIM — Villeroy & Boch (Single control handle faucet) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a single control handle faucet — Earlier Community design — Ground for invalidity — Individual character — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — No scope for innovation — Different Overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

21.12.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 429/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 October 2015 — Roca Sanitario v OHIM — Villeroy & Boch (Single control handle faucet)
   (Case T-334/14) (1)
   
   ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a single control handle faucet - Earlier Community design - Ground for invalidity - Individual character - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - No scope for innovation - Different Overall impression - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))
   (2015/C 429/28)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Roca Sanitario, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: R. Guerras Mazón, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Villeroy & Boch AG (Mettlach, Germany)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 21 February 2014 (Case R 812/2012-3), concerning invalidity proceedings between Villeroy & Boch AG and Roca Sanitario, SA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Roca Sanitario, SA, to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261, 11.8.2014.