Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2022-04-19
R0951/2021-3
Contested design: 006611570-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, and the invalidity applicant must bear the design holder's costs.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
1. Desestimar el recurso. 2. Ordenar que la solicitante de nulidad sufrague las costas de la titular.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €900
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CAYAGO TEC GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Benzstraße 10, D-32108 Bad Salzuflen, Alemania
Represented by
Jordi Güell Serra
Holder · RCD owner
iAQUA (Shenzhen) Limitedvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 6 Building Huayisheng Industrial Park, No 4 industrial Zone, Fenghuang, Fuyong, Shenzhen, República Popular De China
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
Sports apparatus / underwater motive device design
RCD No 2 077 206-0004 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-09-10
Sports apparatus / underwater motive device design
RCD No 2 077 206-0003 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-09-10
Sports apparatus / underwater motive device design
RCD No 2 077 206-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-09-10
Sports apparatus / underwater motive device design
RCD No 2 077 206-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-09-10
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the contested jet-powered watercraft design lacked individual character and conflicted with its earlier Community designs D1 to D4, which had already been enforced in other proceedings.
- ›The design holder replied that the contested design had a sufficiently different sporty overall appearance and that the infringement history and other cited registrations or patents did not determine EUIPO validity.
- ›The Board compared the earlier designs with the contested RCD and found clear differences in the bow, support surface, hull contours, keel and other visible features, so the contested design created a different overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The appeal was dismissed, and the Board fixed representation costs at EUR 900 in total for the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberH. Salmi
- Registrarp.o. R. Vidal
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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