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.
United Kingdom (GB)
Miners Road, Llay Industrial Estate, Wrexham, LL12 0PJ, Regno Unito
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Gruppo Veneziano S.r.l.
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
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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