Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-02-16
R1218/2023-3
Contested design: 008764963-0008
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
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 (3)
blister package
RCD No 6 343 638-0007 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-04-10
blister package
RCD No 6 343 638-0003 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-04-10
blister package
RCD No 4 522 787-0008 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-02-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the contested stationery packaging lacked individual character in light of three earlier blister-package RCDs sharing a similar red-and-white layout.
- ›The design holder did not respond.
- ›The Board refused to enlarge the case with additional WIPO PROOF material and assessed only the three prior RCDs pleaded in the invalidity application.
- ›It found the colourful stain patterns, rounded corners, angled red sections, black lines and absent figurative elements enough to create 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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