Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2022-08-08
R0952/2021-3
Contested design: 006611570-0002
Outcome
The appeal proceedings are suspended until the General Court gives a final judgment in Case T-377/22.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
Suspender el procedimiento de recurso hasta que el Tribunal General de la Unión Europea haya dictado su sentencia en el asunto T-377/22 y dicha sentencia sea firme.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CAYAGO TEC GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Benzstraße 10, 32108 Bad Salzuflen, Alemania
Represented by
Jordi Güell Serra
Holder · RCD owner
iAQUA (Shenzhen) Limitedvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
n.º 6 Building Huayisheng Industrial Park, n.º 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 appealed the rejection of its invalidity application against the contested watercraft design, relying on earlier Community designs D1 to D4 and lack of individual character.
- ›The design holder defended the first-instance dismissal and argued that the contested design still produced a different overall impression.
- ›The Board observed that a parallel appeal between the same parties concerning RCD No 6 611 570-0001 had already been challenged before the General Court in Case T-377/22 and raised essentially the same factual and legal questions.
- ›To avoid inconsistent outcomes, the Board suspended the present appeal until the General Court’s judgment in T-377/22 becomes final.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberH. Salmi
- Registrarp.o. E. Apaolaza
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |