Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-07-23

R2747/2017-3

Contested design: 003023381-0003

CDRAppellant: applicant

Outcome

Appeal dismissed

The appeal is dismissed and the invalidity applicant is ordered to bear the holder's costs.

Show verbatim operative text(es)

Desestimar el recurso. Ordenar que la solicitante de nulidad sufrague las costas de la titular.

CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs

Parties

Applicant · invalidity challenger

FABULOUS CIPHER, LDA.via PDF extraction

Portugal (PT)

Rua da Mabor, 104, Braga- Vilanova de Famalicâo - Lousado, 4760 813 Lousado, Portugal

Represented by

GARRIGUES IP, S.L.P.

Holder · RCD owner

PARFOIS - BARATA & RAMILO, S.A.via PDF extraction

Portugal (PT)

Rua do Sistelo, 755 - Lugar de Santegãos, 4435-429 Rio Tinto, Portugal

Represented by

SANTIAGO MEDIANO ABOGADOS, S.L.P.

Prior art cited (1)

Web disclosure

Bottega Veneta store interior (London)

www.vogue.it, 24 March 2011 · www.vogue.it · disclosed 2011-03-24

Legal grounds invoked

Article 25(1)(b)Article 5Article 6Article 25(1)(c)Article 25(1)(d)Article 25(1)(e)Article 25(1)(f)Article 25(1)(g)Article 28(1)(b)Article 63Article 70(1)

Argument summary

›Applicant (appellant) challenged RCD No 003023381-0003 (shop decoration) for lack of individual character over the 'Bottega Veneta' London store design (disclosed on www.vogue.it on 24 March 2011) and additional designs in an expert report.
›The holder argued that only the 'Bottega Veneta' design was validly invoked; expert report designs lacked individual comparisons and the RCD produced a different overall impression through distinctive colour tone, furniture arrangement, merchandise density, and lighting.
›The Board confirmed that expert-report-only designs were inadmissible; only 'Bottega Veneta' (London) was the valid prior design.
›The Board found the two designs produced different overall impressions — differing colour tone (cool white vs. warm yellow), merchandise density, perimeter furnishing, and lighting prominence — and dismissed the appeal.

Deciding panel

ChairTh. M. Margellos
RapporteurC. Rusconi
MemberH. Salmi
RegistrarH. Dijkema

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