Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2022-07-11
R1963/2020-3
Contested design: 006581245-0010
Outcome
The withdrawal of the appeal is noted, the appeal proceedings are declared terminated, and the parties’ agreement on the apportionment of costs is noted.
Show verbatim operative text(it)
1. Il ritiro del ricorso è annotato e il procedimento di ricorso è dichiarato terminato; 2. Si prende nota dell’accordo sulla ripartizione delle spese sostenute dalle parti.
CostsEach party bears its own costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dado Ceramica S.r.L.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Sicilia 21, 40017 San Giovanni in Persiceto (BO), Italia
Represented by
Stefano Querzè
Holder · RCD owner
Italcer S.p.A.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Emilia Ovest, 53/A, 42048 Rubiera (RE), Italia
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Three invalidity applicants appealed the Invalidity Division’s rejection of their application against Italcer’s tile design.
- ›The design holder asked the Board to dismiss the appeal, and the parties then reached an amicable settlement.
- ›After the invalidity applicants withdrew the appeal, the Board held there was no longer any need to adjudicate and the contested first-instance decision became final.
- ›The Board terminated the appeal proceedings and took note of the parties’ agreement on costs without a merits ruling.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberM. Bra
- Registrarp.o. M. Chaleva
Decision files
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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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