CELEX: 62013TA0015
Language: en
Date: 2015-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-15/13: Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2015 — Group Nivelles v OHIM — Easy Sanitary Solutions (Shower drain conduit) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered design representing a shower drain conduit — Earlier design — Grounds for invalidity — Novelty — Individual character — Visible characteristic of the earlier design — Goods at issue — Articles 4 to 7, 19 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

29.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/30
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2015 — Group Nivelles v OHIM — Easy Sanitary Solutions (Shower drain conduit)
   (Case T-15/13) (1)
   
   ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered design representing a shower drain conduit - Earlier design - Grounds for invalidity - Novelty - Individual character - Visible characteristic of the earlier design - Goods at issue - Articles 4 to 7, 19 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))
   (2015/C 213/51)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Group Nivelles (Gingelom, Belgium) (represented by: H. Jonkhout, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Bonne and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Easy Sanitary Solutions BV (Losser, Netherlands) (represented by: F. Eijsvogels, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 October 2012 (Case R 2004/2010-3) concerning invalidity proceedings between I-drain BVBA and Easy Sanitary Solutions BV.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 4 October 2012 (Case R 2004/2010-3);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Group Nivelles and Easy Sanitary Solutions BV.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 108, 13.4.2013.