Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-01-18
R2051/2019-3
Contested design: 003521053-0015
Outcome
The contested decision is annulled, the RCD is declared invalid, and the design holder must pay EUR 2,050 in costs and fees to the invalidity applicant.
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1. Annuls the contested decision and declared the Community design No 3 521 053-0015 invalid; 2. Orders the design holder to bear the costs and fees incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings; 3. Fixes the costs to be paid by the design holder to the invalidity applicant for the invalidity and appeal proceedings at EUR 2 050.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €2,050
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CALITEX S.A.via PDF extraction
France (FR)
B.P. 59405, 59405 Cambrai Cedex, France
Represented by
David Lefranc
Holder · RCD owner
VAN DER HAEGEN & NECKEBROECK, bvbavia PDF extraction
Belgium (BE)
Pamelstraat Oost 450, B-9400 Ninove, Belgium
Represented by
Christian Defauw
Prior art cited (1)
tablecloth ornamentation with starfish, lifebuoy, ropes, beach huts, shells and heart on wood-plank background
TB 1638 / Fond Marin · 2014-2015 MP catalogue
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant appealed the rejection of its novelty and individual-character attack on a marine-themed tablecloth design and relied on a 2014-2015 catalogue plus later product offers and orders for the same pattern called 'Fond Marin'.
- ›The design holder argued that the alleged earlier disclosures were either unauthorised and grace-period protected or insufficiently linked to the contested design.
- ›The Board held that the catalogue and commercial emails proved pre-filing disclosure and that the grace-period argument failed because the 2014 catalogue predated the relevant 12-month period.
- ›The compared designs were identical in their arrangement of starfish, ropes, beach huts, shells, heart and planked background, so the RCD lacked novelty and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurC. Bartos
- MemberE. Fink
- RegistrarH.Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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