Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-07-26
R2378/2023-3
Contested design: 002341909-0003
Outcome
The appeal proceedings are suspended until the conciliation proceedings between the parties before the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris are concluded, and the parties must keep the Board informed of their status.
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
Plasticos Faca, S.A.via PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Ctra. del Mig, 1-13, 08940 Cornella de Llobregat (Barcelona), España
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant had obtained cancellation of the contested RCD at first instance for alleged lack of novelty and individual character.
- ›The design holder appealed that invalidity decision and later asked the Board to suspend the appeal because parallel conciliation proceedings were pending in Paris.
- ›The invalidity applicant asked for the appeal to be dismissed and filed no observations on the suspension request when invited to do so.
- ›Balancing the parties' interests, legal certainty, procedural economy and sound administration, the Board exercised its discretion to suspend the appeal pending the Paris conciliation outcome.
- ›No substantive ruling on the invalidity grounds was made in this provisional decision.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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