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Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-09-18
R1005/2018-3
Contested design: 001431829-0006
CDRAppellant: holder
Outcome
Other
The appeal proceedings are suspended pending the General Court's final decision in case T-574/19.
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Suspends the present appeal proceedings pending a final decision in case T-574/19.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Mystic Products Import & Export, SLvia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Carrer Guifre Nº 689, 08918 Badalona, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Tinnus Enterprises, LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
3429 18th Street, Plano Texas, United States of America
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Article 25(1)(b)Article 4(1)Article 8Article 60(1)
Argument summary
- ›The design holder (Tinnus) appealed the Invalidity Division's decision declaring RCD No 1 431 829-0006 invalid; the appeal raised issues of whether design features are solely dictated by technical function under Article 8 CDR.
- ›Two invalidity applicants (Mystic Products and Koopman International) both requested dismissal of the appeal; Koopman requested expedited proceedings.
- ›A parallel General Court action (T-574/19) was filed against Board decision R 1002/2018-3 concerning a related RCD from the same multiple application with the same parties and same patent-based invalidity grounds.
- ›The Board decided to suspend proceedings pending the outcome of T-574/19 for reasons of legal certainty, economy of proceedings, and sound administration.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurH. Salmi
- MemberC. Rusconi
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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