Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2022-02-17
R2384/2020-3
Contested design: 006301891-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed; the invalidity applicant must bear the design holder’s costs.
Show verbatim operative text(fr)
1. Le recours est rejeté; 2. La demanderesse en nullité devra supporter les frais engagés par la titulaire du modèle.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Saverglassvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
3, rue de la Gare, 60960 Feuquieres, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Discovia PDF extraction
France (FR)
Avenue des Torulas, 16100 Merpins, France
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
carafes prior design
RCD No 1 011 191-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2008-10-06
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Saverglass attacked the contested carafe design for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD No 1 011 191-0001.
- ›Disco maintained that the compared designs differed in their proportions and visible shape features and therefore produced different overall impressions.
- ›The Board agreed that the earlier design had been disclosed but found the challenged design sufficiently different to preserve individual character.
- ›The appeal was dismissed; the invalidity application remained unsuccessful and costs were shifted to the invalidity applicant.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- MemberM. Bra
- MemberA. Szanyi Felkl
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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