Judgment_paragraph 69 · Easy Sanitary Solutions BV and European Union Intellectual Property Office v Group Nivelles (C-361/15 P, C-405/15 P)

69EUIPO cannot be required, in particular in the context of assessing the novelty of a contested design, to combine various elements of an earlier design, since it is for the applicant for a declaration of invalidity to produce a complete representation of that earlier design. Moreover, any potential combination would be flawed, as the Advocate General has pointed out in point 152 of his Opinion, since it would necessarily entail approximations.