CELEX: 62020TA0193
Language: en
Date: 2021-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-193/20: Judgment of the General Court of 10 November 2021 — Eternit v EUIPO — Eternit Österreich (Building panel) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered community design representing a building panel — Earlier design representing a panel for a noise-reduction wall — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Sector concerned — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — No different overall impression — Relevance of goods actually marketed — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

17.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 November 2021 — Eternit v EUIPO — Eternit Österreich (Building panel)
      (Case T-193/20) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered community design representing a building panel - Earlier design representing a panel for a noise-reduction wall - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Sector concerned - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - No different overall impression - Relevance of goods actually marketed - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
      (2022/C 24/34)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Eternit (Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Belgium) (represented by: J. Muyldermans and P. Maeyaert, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Eternit Österreich GmbH (Vöcklabruck, Austria) (represented by: M. Prohaska-Marchried, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 February 2020 (Case R 1661/2018-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Eternit Österreich and Eternit.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Eternit to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Eternit Österreich GmbH.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 201, 15.6.2020.