Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-06-25
R1434/2020-3
Contested design: 005820008-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed and the costs incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings are borne by the holder.
Show verbatim operative text(it)
1. Il ricorso è respinto; 2. Le spese sostenute dalla richiedente nei procedimenti di nullità e di ricorso sono poste a carico della titolare.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Daimler AGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Mercedesstr. 120, 70372 Stoccarda, Germania
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
G.M.P. Group s.r.l.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Luigi Galvani, 8/12, 24061 Albano Sant'Alessandro (BG), Italia
Represented by
Giulio Bonadio
Prior art cited (1)
wheel rims for vehicles
RCD No 2 691 410-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2016-10-21
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The holder argued that the Invalidity Division had misjudged the crowded state of the wheel-rim sector, the informed user, and the effect of differences between the competing rims.
- ›The invalidity applicant maintained that the earlier registered rim design disclosed the same dominant five paired spokes, V-shaped spacing and rib structure, and that the remaining differences were only technical details around the hub holes.
- ›The Board found wide design freedom apart from basic circular constraints and held that the common paired-spoke and rib arrangement dominated the overall impression, while the cited differences were minimal and scarcely perceptible.
- ›The appeal was dismissed and the holder was ordered to bear the invalidity applicant’s costs in both instances.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberM. Bra
- RegistrarR. Vidal
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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