Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2020-09-10
R1649/2019-3
Contested design: 001457113-0075
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed; the invalidity applicant must bear the costs incurred by the design holder in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Die Beschwerdeführerin trägt die der Beschwerdegegnerin entstandenen Kosten des Nichtigkeits- und Beschwerdeverfahrens.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
LEGERO Schuhfabrik Gesellschaft mbHvia PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Legero-United-Straße 4, 8073 Feldkirchen bei Graz, Österreich
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Rieker Schuh AGvia PDF extraction
Switzerland (CH)
Stockwiesen Straße 1, 8240 Thayngen, Schweiz
Represented by
Prior art cited (5)
shoe design
DE 40 2011 006754-0004 · German design register · disclosed 2012-03-16
shoe design
DE 40 2011 006754-0005 · German design register · disclosed 2012-03-16
shoe design
DE 40 2012 003211-0004 · German design register · disclosed 2012-09-28
shoe design claiming the priority of D3
RCD No 1 340 749-0004 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-08-30
Tanaro shoe models from a catalogue excerpt
catalogue excerpt
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the shoe design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier German and Community shoe designs D1-D4 and over additional Tanaro models.
- ›The design holder challenged admissibility and the merits, maintaining that the contested design's sole, upper and colour treatment differed from the earlier shoes and that the new appeal-stage material was not part of the case.
- ›The Board found the appeal timely but held that newly submitted designs could not expand the proceedings; on the merits it concluded that the accepted earlier designs D1-D4 produced a different overall impression because of the contested shoe's distinctive upper and saw-tooth sole, while the Tanaro models were not proven prior disclosures.
- ›The appeal was dismissed and the invalidity applicant was ordered to pay the costs of the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurC. Bartos
- MemberE. Fink
- RegistrarH.Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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