Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2020-07-09
R0234/2020-3
Contested design: 005822301-0001
Outcome
1. The appeal proceedings are closed due to withdrawal of the appeal; 2. The invalidity applicant bears the costs of the invalidity and appeal proceedings incurred by the design holder.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Das Beschwerdeverfahren wird aufgrund der Zurücknahme der Beschwerde eingestellt; 2. Die Antragstellerin trägt die der Inhaberin entstandenen Kosten des Nichtigkeits- und des Beschwerdeverfahrens.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
MAC Mode GmbH & Co. KGaAvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Industriestr. 2, 93192 Wald/Roßbach, Deutschland
Holder · RCD owner
Reinhold Fleckenstein Jeanswear GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Maybachstr. 2, 72202 Nagold, Deutschland
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant/appellant sought invalidity of RCD No 5822301-0001 (trousers) for lack of novelty and individual character under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 4 CDR; the Invalidity Division rejected the application on 29 November 2019.
- ›Appellant filed the appeal on 29 January 2020 and submitted grounds on 26 March 2020; the holder was the respondent.
- ›On 29 May 2020 the appellant withdrew the appeal, eliminating the basis for the appeal proceedings.
- ›The Board closed the proceedings, confirmed the Invalidity Division decision (including costs against the applicant), and ordered the applicant to bear the holder's costs of the appeal proceedings under Article 70(3) CDR.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- Registrarp.o. M. Chaleva
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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