Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2017 — Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn v CPVO — Artevos (Oksana)
(Case T-767/14) 1
(New varieties of plants — Community plant variety rights — Application for a Community plant variety right for the pear variety Oksana — Objections — Rejection of the application by the Board of Appeal of the CPVO — Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 — Novelty of the candidate variety — Lack of evidence)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn BV (Uden, Netherlands) (represented by: P. Jonker, lawyer)
Defendant: Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) (represented by: F. Mattina, acting as Agent)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of CPVO, intervening before the General Court: Artevos GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) (represented by: G. Würtenberger, W.R. Kunze, lawyers, and B. Schnell, Solicitor)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the CPVO: Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt eV (Bielefeld, Germany)
Re:
Action against the decision of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO of 2 July 2014 (Case A 007/2013) concerning the grant of a Community plant variety right in respect of pears of the Oksana variety.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn BV to pay the costs.
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1 OJ C 46, 9.2.2015.