Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-07-09
R2254/2023-3
Contested design: 015024173-0043
Outcome
The Board annuls the contested decision, allows the design application to proceed with filing date 9 June 2023, and remits the case to the examiner.
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1. Annuls the contested decision. 2. Allows Community Design application No 15 024 173 to proceed to registration with the filing date of 9 June 2023. 3. Remits the case to the examiner for further prosecution.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
RALPH LAUREN CORPORATIONvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
650 Madison Avenue, 10022 New York, United States
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant appealed the examiner’s refusal to keep 9 June 2023 as the filing date, arguing the original images were suitable for reproduction and clearly showed the designs.
- ›It argued Article 10 CDIR cannot impose an “excellent quality” standard and that any request for cosmetically better images should not shift the original filing date.
- ›The Board found the original computer-generated images met the technical and identification requirements, and the examiner had not explained any concrete failure to satisfy them.
- ›Because the original representations were acceptable and the separate defect in design 0013 was remediable without affecting filing date, the appeal was allowed and the case remitted.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurC. Bartos
- MemberA. Pohlmann
- RegistrarM. Chaleva
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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