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Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-09-18
R1006/2018-3
Contested design: 001431829-0002
CDRAppellant: holder
Outcome
Other
The appeal proceedings are suspended pending the General Court's final decision in case T-574/19.
Show verbatim operative text
Suspends the present appeal proceedings pending a final decision in case T-574/19.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Mystic Products Import & Export, SL
Spain (ES)
Carrer Guifre Nº 689, 08918 Badalona, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Tinnus Enterprises, LLC
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 1 431 829-0002 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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