13Papierfabriek Doetinchem appealed against that judgment to the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf, Germany). The latter, by judgment of 27 June 2019, declared the design at issue in the main proceedings to be invalid, on the ground that all of its features were dictated by the technical function of that product. In that connection, the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf) took into account the patent application publication invoked by Sprick, EP 2897793, according to which all the features of that product were explained as being technically advantageous, and found, on the basis of the judgment of 8 March 2018, DOCERAM (C‑395/16, EU:C:2018:172), that the existence of ‘viable design alternatives’ was irrelevant.
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