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Document 62008TJ0011

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011.
Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine - Earlier national design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Visible features of a component part of a complex product - No different overall impression - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002.
Case T-11/08.

European Court Reports 2011 II-00266*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2011:447

Date of document:
09/09/2011
Date lodged:
07/01/2008
Author:
General Court
Country or organisation from which the request originates:
Third countries
Form:
Judgment
Authentic language:
English
Type of procedure:
Action for annulment - unfounded
Defendant:
European Union Intellectual Property Office
Judge-Rapporteur:
Azizi
Treaty:
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011 – Kwang Yang Motor v OHIM – Honda Giken Kogyo (internal combustion engine)

(Case T-11/08)

Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine – Earlier national design – Ground for invalidity – No individual character – Visible features of a component part of a complex product – No different overall impression – Informed user – Degree of freedom of the designer – Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002

1.                     Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Informed user – Concept (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 6(1)) (see paras 23-27)

2.                     Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design – Representation of an internal combustion engine (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 4(2), 6)(1) and 25(1)(b)) (see paras 30, 38, 43, 45)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of 8 October 2007 of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1380/2006-3), relating to invalidity proceedings for Community designs between Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd.

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd to pay the costs.

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