Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-03-19
R0422/2023-3
Contested design: 008044010-0001
Outcome
The contested decision is annulled, the case is remitted to the Invalidity Division to continue examining the invalidity application, and each party shall bear its own costs of the appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(fr)
La décision attaquée est annulée ; L’affaire est renvoyée à la division d’annulation afin de poursuivre l’examen de la demande en nullité ; Chaque partie est condamnée à ses propres dépens exposés aux fins de la procédure de recours.
CostsEach party bears its own costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Vaisala Francevia PDF extraction
France (FR)
43 rue de Liège, 75008 Paris, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
B.R.Cvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
Route de Sainte-Poix, 35370 Le Pertre, France
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
prior watertight container for the Windcube system
Windcube V2 · WindEurope trade fair, Hamburg · disclosed 2018-09-25
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued the holder registered a container built to its specifications and that an earlier Windcube container had already been publicly disclosed in 2018, defeating novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder said the applicant was only its supplier, the disclosure evidence was self-generated and confidential or unproven as public, and the contested design also included non-technical features.
- ›The Board rejected the technical-function attack, but admitted the new annexes and found them, together with the earlier materials, sufficient to prove public disclosure of one prior Windcube design in 2018.
- ›Because first instance had not yet assessed novelty and individual character after disclosure was established, the Board annulled the decision and remitted the case; each side bears its own appeal costs.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberE. Fink
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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