Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-02-16
R1217/2023-3
Contested design: 008764963-0006
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
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Spain (ES)
Calle de la Marga, s/n, Pol. Ind. Nuestra Señora del Rosario, 45224 Seseña Nuevo (Toledo), Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
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China (CN)
Unit 5, Building 3, Rattle Garden, Ersanli Street, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
blister package
RCD No 6 343 638-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-04-10
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant contended that the single-view contested packaging lacked individual character over one earlier blister-package RCD using a similar red, blue and white scheme.
- ›The design holder submitted no observations.
- ›The Board confined the case to the prior design cited in the invalidity application and treated the marketed products and extra WIPO PROOF designs as irrelevant to the comparison.
- ›It found the mirrored corners, larger eyelet, different red and blue sections and different sheet proportions sufficient to produce a distinct overall impression, so the appeal failed.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberA. Pohlmann
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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