CELEX: 62019TA0073
Language: en
Date: 2020-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-73/19: Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2020 — Bergslagernas Järnvaru v EUIPO — Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen (Wood-splitting tool) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a wood-splitting tool — Earlier national design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — No different overall impression — Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Infringement of the rights of the defence — Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)

22.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2020 — Bergslagernas Järnvaru v EUIPO — Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen (Wood-splitting tool)
      (Case T-73/19) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a wood-splitting tool - Earlier national design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - No different overall impression - Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Infringement of the rights of the defence - Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)
      (2020/C 209/32)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Bergslagernas Järnvaruaktiebolag (Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden) (represented by: S. Kirschstein-Freund and B. Breitinger, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen GmbH (Ichenhausen, Germany)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 23 November 2018 (Case R 1455/2018-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Scheppach Fabrikation von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen and Bergslagernas Järnvaru.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Bergslagernas Järnvaruaktiebolag to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 122, 1.4.2019.