Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2018-12-03
R1342/2018-3
Contested design: 001968496-0002
Outcome
1. The invalidity and appeal proceedings are closed. 2. The holder shall bear the fees and costs incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(fr)
1. Les procédures d'annulation et de recours sont clôturées ; 2. Le titulaire supportera les frais et taxes exposés par le demandeur en nullité dans le cadre des procédures d'annulation et de recours.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Claus Grambergvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Sigsfeldstraße 4, 45141 Essen, Allemagne
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Sorouch Mahdavi Sabetvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
75, boulevard Soult, 75012 Paris, France
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant (Gramberg) had sought invalidation of the contested phone-case design RCD No 1 968 496-0002 for lack of individual character under Article 6 RDMC; the Board had initially upheld the appeal and rejected the invalidity application in January 2015, but the General Court annulled that decision in February 2018 (T-166/15) finding errors in evidence assessment.
- ›After remittal, the Board notified the invalidity applicant that the RCD had expired without renewal on 25 December 2016, and invited him to request a decision on the merits within one month; the invalidity applicant did not respond.
- ›Because the contested RCD lapsed due to non-renewal, the invalidity and appeal proceedings became devoid of purpose and had to be closed under Articles 22 and 40 REDMC; Article 70(3) RDMC attributes costs to the party that caused closure by non-renewal.
- ›The proceedings were closed without a merits decision; the holder bears the costs of both the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Deciding panel
- ChairM. Bra
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberH. Salmi
- RegistrarI. Romero Conrad
Decision files
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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