57According to the case-law, the informed user is a person who is particularly observant and who has some awareness of the previous state of the art, that is to say, the previous designs relating to the product in question that had been disclosed on the date of filing of the contested design (Case T-9/07 Grupo Promer Mon Graphic v OHIM - PepsiCo (Representation of a Circular Promotional Item) [2010] ECR II-981, paragraph 62, and judgment of 9 September 2011 in Case T-11/08 Kwang Yang Motor v OHIM – Honda Giken Kogyo (Internal Combustion Engine), not published in the ECR, paragraph 23).
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