Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-02-16
R1215/2023-3
Contested design: 008764963-0004
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, and the invalidity applicant must bear the design holder’s costs in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders the invalidity applicant to bear the costs incurred by the design holder in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lian Chenvia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Calle de la Marga, s/n, Pol. Ind. Nuestra Señora del Rosario, 45224 Seseña Nuevo (Toledo), Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Guohua Hevia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Unit 5, Building 3, Rattle Garden, Ersanli Street, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
blister package
RCD No 4 522 787-0049 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-02-22
blister package
RCD No 4 522 787-0036 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-02-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the pouch packaging reproduced the essential appearance of two earlier blister-package RCDs used for stationery goods.
- ›The design holder filed no defence.
- ›The Board limited the appeal to D1 and D2 because newly referenced WIPO PROOF material could not be added on appeal.
- ›It held that the animal image, pouch shape, transparent versus opaque structure, and line and colour layout differences created a different overall impression, so the appeal was dismissed.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberA. Pohlmann
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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