CELEX: 62017TA0296
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-296/17: Judgment of the General Court of 22 November 2018 — Buck-Chemie v EUIPO — Henkel (Cleansing block for toilets) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a cleansing block for toilets — Ground for invalidity — Individual character — Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

28.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 22 November 2018 — Buck-Chemie v EUIPO — Henkel (Cleansing block for toilets)
      (Case T-296/17) (1)
      
      ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a cleansing block for toilets - Ground for invalidity - Individual character - Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))
      (2019/C 35/25)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Buck-Chemie GmbH (Herrenberg, Germany) (represented by: C. Schultze, J. Ossing, R.-D. Härer, C. Weber, H. Ranzinger, C. Brockmann and C. Gehweiler, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) (represented by: J. Schmidt, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 March 2017 (Case R 2113/2015-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Buck-Chemie and Henkel.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Buck-Chemie GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, including the costs necessarily incurred before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 239, 24.7.2017.