Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber), 18 October 2012

Herbert Neuman and Others v José Manuel Baena Grupo SA

Appeals – Community design – Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Articles 6, 25(1)(b) and (e), and 61 – Registered Community design or model representing a seated figure – Earlier Community figurative mark – Different overall impression – Degree of freedom of the designer – Informed user – Scope of judicial review – No statement of reasons

Joined Cases C-101/11 P and C-102/11 P



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Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
23/11/2012 Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo
Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
- Designs
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs
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Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2012:641		 18/10/2012 Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo
Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
- Designs
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2012:641		 18/10/2012 Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo
Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
- Designs
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
30/04/2011 Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo
Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
- Designs
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs
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Order
ECLI:EU:C:2011:236		 11/04/2011 Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo
Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
- Designs
  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs
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Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 December 2010 - Case T-513/09 Baena Grupo v OHIM - Neuman and Galdeano del Sel (Seated figure), by which the General Court annulled the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 14 October 2009 (Case R 1323/2008-3)

Systematic classification scheme

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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.04 Community designs
      4.11.04.03 null
        4.11.04.03.03 null
          4.11.04.03.03.02
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.04 Community designs
      4.11.04.01 null
        4.11.04.01.03 null
          4.11.04.01.03.02
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.10 Appeals
    3.10.02 Jurisdiction over the appeal
      3.10.02.01 Exclusion of questions of fact
        3.10.02.01.01 Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence
          3.10.02.01.01.00 General
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.10 Appeals
    3.10.03 Grounds of appeal
      3.10.03.02 Issues relating to the admissibility of the pleas
        3.10.03.02.04 New pleas in law
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.10 Appeals
    3.10.03 Grounds of appeal
      3.10.03.04 Substance of the pleas in law
        3.10.03.04.03 Infringement of EU law
          3.10.03.04.03.01 Insufficient or contradictory reasoning for the decision under appeal


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 28/02/2011

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

18/10/2012


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 379 from 08.12.2012, p.7

Application: OJ C 130 from 30.04.2011, p.13

Name of the parties

Neuman and Galdeano del Sel v José Manuel Baena Grupo

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Marco Arcalá, Luis Alberto: Últimas aportaciones en torno al carácter singular de los diseños comunitarios en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea - Comentario a las Sentencias Acumuladas TJUE (Pleno) C-101/11 P y C-102/11 P, Herbert Neuman, Andoni Galdeano del Sol y OAMI v. José Manuel Baena Grupo SA, de 18 de octubre de 2013 - caso Muñeco sentado, Actas de derecho industrial y derecho de autor 2012-2013 nº 33 p.499-518 (ES)
  2. Sandri, Stefano: L'impressione generale nel confronto fra marchio figurativo anteriore e modello posteriore, Il diritto industriale 2013 p.36-39 (IT)
  3. Becker, Guido M.: Zum informierten Benutzer verärgerter Männchen, Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht INT 2013 p.214-217 (DE)
  4. Thiele, Clemens: EuGH: Rechtsbeständigkeit eines Geschmacksmusters gegenüber vorbestehender Bildmarke, MR-Int : Internationale Rundschau zum Medienrecht, IP- & IT-Recht 2013 p.39-40 (DE)
  5. Vida, Sándor: Védjegy és formatervezési minta ütközése - Az EU Bíróságának ítélete, Iparjogvédelmi és Szerzői Jogi Szemle 2013 4.szám p.29-39 (HU)
  6. Gielen, Ch.: Wat betekent "algemene indruk" en "geïnformeerde gebruiker" in het modellenrecht?, Ars aequi 2014 p.47-49 (NL)
  7. Szoszuk, Wlodzimierz: On a clash between registration rights to a design and trade mark, LANDMARK IP DECISIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE 2008-2013 (Ed. Larcier - Brussels) 2014 p.257-263 (EN)
  8. Gielen, Ch.: Jurisprudentie Intellectuele Eigendom 1953-2014 (Ed. 2015 Ars Aequi Libri, Nijmegen) 2015 p.186-188 (NL)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Designs

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment
  • Appeals : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  • Appeals : dismissal on substantive grounds

Formation of the Court

sixième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lõhmus

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

  • Spanish

Language(s) of the Opinion

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