Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-01-12
R0590/2020-3
Contested design: 005649068-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, the joint design holders must bear the invalidity and appeal costs, and reimbursable costs are fixed at EUR 1,250.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Die Inhaberinnen tragen die Kosten des Nichtigkeits- und des Beschwerdeverfahrens. 3. Der Betrag der von den Inhaberinnen an die Antragstellerin zu erstattenden Kosten für das Nichtigkeits- und das Beschwerdeverfahren wird auf 1.250 EUR festgesetzt.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €1,250
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Zirbenkugel GmbHvia PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Swarovskistraße 60, 6112 Wattens, Austria
Represented by
Franz-Martin Orou
Holder · RCD owner
37Grad GmbHvia PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Reitgraben 1a, 6111 Volders, Österreich
Represented by
Kornelia Kaltenhauser
Prior art cited (1)
carafe with wooden ball stopper
Facebook page 'Tirol Shop Innsbruck' · Facebook / Tirol Shop Innsbruck · disclosed 2015-09-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The joint design holders argued that the earlier Facebook images did not fully show the wooden ball and that the distinctive grain of the contested product gave it novelty and individual character.
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the contested design covered a bottle with wooden stopper as a whole and that differences in wood grain, colour and the word 'Tirol' were immaterial.
- ›The Board agreed that D3 disclosed the relevant earlier design and held that natural wood grain and a word element could not confer novelty on an otherwise identical bottle-and-ball combination.
- ›The contested design lacked novelty over D3, so the appeal was dismissed and fixed costs of EUR 1,250 were awarded against the holders.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- 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 ↗ |