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(2022/C 368/50)
Language in which the application was lodged: Polish
Applicant: Cyprian Iwuć (Sliema, Malta) (represented by: T. Kos, lawyer)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hangzhou XiangHui International Trading Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou, China)
Proprietor of the design at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
Design at issue: Community design ‘Packaging boxes, Socks (Set of -)’ — Community design No 8 043 228-0001
Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 May 2022 in Case R 1672/2021-3
The applicant claims that the Court should:
—annul the contested decision and, accordingly, declare the contested design invalid; in the alternative, if the contested design is not deemed to lack novelty as a whole, limit, on the basis of Article 25(6) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, the registration of the contested design to the cardboard box;
—order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings before EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal; order EUIPO to pay all the costs of the present proceedings.
—Infringement of Article 5(1)(b) and Article 7(1), in conjunction with Article 63, of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community Designs, read in conjunction with Article 28(1)(b) and (v) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002.