Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2015 — Liu v OHIM — DSN Marketing (Case for a portable computer)
(Case T-813/14) 1
(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a case for a portable computer — Identical earlier designs — Ground for invalidity — Lack of novelty within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Disclosure of earlier designs prior to the priority date — Article 7(1) and (2) of Regulation No 6/2002)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Min Liu (Guangzhou, China) (represented initially by R. Bailly, S. Zhang and Y. Zhang, and subsequently by Y. Zhang, lawyers)
Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: DSN Marketing Ltd (Crawley, United Kingdom)
Re:
Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 October 2014 (Case R 1864/2013-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between DSN Marketing Ltd and Mr Min Liu.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Mr Min Liu to pay the costs.
____________1 OJ C 65, 23.2.2015.