Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-07-26
R2374/2023-3
Contested design: 006645693-0001
Outcome
The Board suspends the appeal proceedings until the conciliation procedure between the parties before the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris is concluded and directs the parties to keep it informed of that conciliation.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
1. Suspender el presente procedimiento de recurso hasta la conclusión del procedimiento de conciliación entre las partes ante el Tribunal de Commerce de Paris; 2. Requerir a las partes a que informen puntualmente a la Sala sobre el estado del procedimiento de conciliación antes referido.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Laboratoires Filorga Cosmetiquesvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
2-4 rue de Lisbonne, 75008 Paris, Francia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Faca France Recipients Pour Cosmetique S.L.via PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Ctra. del Mig, 1-13, 08940 Cornella de Llobregat, España
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder appealed the Invalidity Division's decision declaring the contested bottle design invalid for lack of novelty and individual character under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 4(1) CDR.
- ›The invalidity applicant asked for the appeal to be dismissed and later filed no observations on the holder's requests to suspend the appeal because of parallel conciliation proceedings in Paris.
- ›The Board found the appeal admissible but held that Article 71(1)(b) allowed suspension after balancing both parties' interests, given the parallel court conciliation covering the broader dispute including the contested RCD.
- ›The appeal proceedings were suspended pending the outcome of the Paris conciliation, with both parties required to keep the Board informed.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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