Judgment_paragraph 79 · Ball Beverage Packaging Europe Ltd v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-9/15)

79The comparison of the overall impressions produced by the designs must be synthetic and may not be limited to an analytic comparison of a list of similarities and differences. That comparison must relate solely to the elements actually protected, without taking account of characteristics excluded from the protection (judgment of 7 November 2013, Bounding feline, T‑666/11, not published, EU:T:2013:584, paragraph 30).