Notices for publication in the OJ nº T-57/16 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, August 11, 2017

• Resolution Date: August 11, 2017
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-57/16

Judgment of the General Court of 18 July 2017 - Chanel v EUIPO - Jing Zhou and Golden Rose 999 (Ornamentation)

(Case T-57/16) ¹

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing ornamentation - Earlier design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Product at issue - Degree of freedom of the designer - No different overall impression - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Chanel SAS (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) (represented by: C. Sueiras Villalobos, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: E. Zaera Cuadrado, acting as Agent)

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Li Jing Zhou (Fuenlabrada, Spain) and Golden Rose 999 Srl (Rome, Italy)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 November 2015 (Case R 2346/2014-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between, on the one hand, Chanel and, on the other hand, Mr Li Jing Zhou and Golden Rose 999.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Annuls the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union...