CELEX: 62020TA0503
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-503/20: Judgment of the General Court of 22 September 2021 — T i D kontrolni sistemi v EUIPO –Sigmatron (Signalling apparatuses and devices) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing signalling apparatuses and devices — Earlier Community design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Declaration of invalidity of a prior design — No effect — Disclosure of the earlier design — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — No different overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

20.12.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 513/26
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 22 September 2021 — T i D kontrolni sistemi v EUIPO –Sigmatron (Signalling apparatuses and devices)
      (Case T-503/20) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing signalling apparatuses and devices - Earlier Community design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Declaration of invalidity of a prior design - No effect - Disclosure of the earlier design - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - No different overall impression - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
      (2021/C 513/38)
      Language of the case: Bulgarian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: T i D kontrolni sistemi EOOD (Varna, Bulgaria) (represented by: P. Priparzhenski, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: P. Georgieva and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Sigmatron EOOD (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by: A. Kostov, lawyer).
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 April 2020 (Case R 956/2019-3) relating to invalidity proceedings between Sigmatron and T i D kontrolni sistemi.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders T i D kontrolni sistemi EOOD to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 329, 5.10.2020.