Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2023-06-07
R2030/2022-3
Contested design: 006412573-0001
Outcome
The contested decision is annulled, the challenged design is declared invalid, and the design holder must bear the invalidity applicant's costs and fees.
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1. Annuls the contested decision and declares Community design No 6 412 573-0001 invalid; 2. Orders the design holder to bear the costs and fees incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Mafi ABvia PDF extraction
Sweden (SE)
Seljavägen 15, 792 95 MORA, Sweden
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
SRK Tele Energy India Private Limitedvia PDF extraction
IN
Unit No. 609, Tower C, Unitech Business Zone Sector 50, Gurgaon Haryana 122 018, India
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
fastening device
5 302 924-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-06-13
examples of fastening devices for attaching telecom transmitters available on the market
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant appealed the first-instance rejection, arguing the contested mounting-device design was effectively identical to the prior RCD apart from minor finishing differences.
- ›The design holder filed no response in the appeal proceedings.
- ›The Board held that the shared recessed body, elevated wings, perpendicular elevations, and hole layout dominated the informed user's perception, while the edge angles, openings, and colour differences were minor.
- ›It annulled the rejection decision, declared the contested RCD invalid for lack of individual character, and awarded costs against the design holder.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurH. Salmi
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarE. Apaolaza Alm
Decision files
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| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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