Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2018-10-29
R1343/2012-3
Contested design: 000228184-0009
Outcome
The invalidity and appeal proceedings are closed on account of the holder's surrender of the contested Community design; each party bears its own costs.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Das Nichtigkeits- und das Beschwerdeverfahren werden aufgrund des Verzichts auf das angegriffene Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster eingestellt. 2. Jede Partei trägt ihre eigenen Kosten des Nichtigkeits- und des Beschwerdeverfahrens.
CostsEach party bears its own costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CROWN HELLAS CAN SAvia PDF extraction
GR
57 Ethnikis Antistaseos Str., GR-152 31 Halandri, Athen, Griechenland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ball Beverage Packaging Europe Limitedvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
100 Capability Green, Luton LU1 3LG, Vereinigtes Königreich
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant (Crown Hellas Can SA) sought invalidity of the holder's beverage-can design GGM No. 228184-0009 on grounds of lack of novelty and individual character under Article 25(1)(b) GGV in conjunction with Articles 5 and 6.
- ›The Invalidity Division rejected the invalidity application on 29 May 2012 and ordered the applicant to bear costs; the applicant then appealed.
- ›Proceedings were stayed pending the outcome of parallel court case T-9/15, decided on 13 June 2017; thereafter the parties sought a further stay for settlement negotiations.
- ›On 22 October 2018 the parties jointly declared that the holder surrendered the contested design and that costs had been settled; the surrender was registered on 26 October 2018.
- ›The Board closed both proceedings due to the surrender, treating the joint declaration as meaning each party bears its own costs.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Rusconi
- RegistrarI. Romero Conrad
Decision files
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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