CELEX: 62008TA0011
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-11/08: Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2011 — Kwang Yang Motor v OHIM — Honda Giken Kogyo (internal combustion engine) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine — Earlier national design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Visible features of a component part of a complex product — No different overall impression — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

22.10.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/36
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2011 — Kwang Yang Motor v OHIM — Honda Giken Kogyo (internal combustion engine)
   (Case T-11/08) (1)
   
   (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine - Earlier national design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Visible features of a component part of a complex product - No different overall impression - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
   2011/C 311/64
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) (represented by: P. Rath, W. Festl-Wietek and M. Wetzel, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by: T. Musmann, H. Timmann, M. Büttner and S. von Petersdorff-Campen, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of 8 October 2007 of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1380/2006-3), relating to invalidity proceedings for Community designs between Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 64, 8.3.2008.