Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2023-12-04
R1821/2022-3
Contested design: 006622015-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed and the design holder must bear the invalidity applicant’s costs in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(it)
1. Il ricorso è respinto; 2. Le spese sostenute dalla richiedente nei procedimenti di nullità e di ricorso sono poste a carico della titolare.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Creative 7 UK Ltd.via PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Miners Road, Llay Industrial Estate, Wrexham, LL12 0PJ, Regno Unito
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Gruppo Veneziano S.r.l.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Boscofangone Zona Asi, S.n.c., 80035 Nola (NA), Italia
Represented by
Francesco Paolo Fumarola
Prior art cited (2)
trolley backpack
Cabin Max Lyon · Amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2011-01-11
trolley backpack
Cabin Go 5520 · Amazon.it · disclosed 2017-11-02
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder argued that the invalidity evidence was procedurally deficient, that the trolley-backpack sector was crowded, and that the contested design remained new and individually distinctive.
- ›The invalidity applicant maintained that the earlier trolley-backpack disclosures were sufficiently identified and that the contested design copied their dominant features.
- ›The Board accepted Annex B.2 as supplementary evidence, found the Amazon.it disclosure to predate filing, and considered the author’s freedom fairly broad apart from functional constraints.
- ›It concluded that the conflicting trolley backpacks created the same overall impression, with only minor wheel-attachment and colour differences, so the appeal was rejected.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarR. Vidal Romero
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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