Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/266

(Case T-545/23)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing vehicle wheel rims - Earlier design - Grounds for invalidity - Individual character - Overall impression - Degree of freedom of the designer - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

(C/2025/266)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: G.M.P. Group Srl (Albano Sant’Alessandro, Italy) (represented by: G. A. Bonadio, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: R. Raponi, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) (represented by: M. Orsingher, G. Mazzaglia and C. Cristalli, lawyers)

Re:

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 30 June 2023 (Case R 856/2022-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the action;

2.Orders G.M.P. Group Srl to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Audi AG in the proceedings before the General Court;

3.Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs.

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Language of the case: Italian.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/266/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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