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(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing public toilets - Grounds for invalidity - Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function - Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Disclosure of earlier designs - Degree of freedom of the designer - Informed user - Different overall impression - Articles 5 to 7 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002 - Obligation to state reasons - Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)
(C/2025/2531)
Language of the case: Polish
Applicant: Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. (Rybnik, Poland) (represented by: A. Szczurek, lawyer)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and M. Chylińska, Agents)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Budotechnika sp. z o.o. (Pilchowice, Poland) (represented by: A. Pilecka and M. Witkowska, lawyers)
By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 4 August 2023 (Case R 15/2023-3).
The Court:
1.Dismisses the action;
2.Orders Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. to pay the costs incurred in the proceedings before the General Court.
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(1) OJ C C/2023/779, 20.11.2023.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2531/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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