Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-07-30
R0918/2023-3
Contested design: 003465541-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, and the design holder must bear the costs and fees incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders the design holder to bear the costs and fees incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Froneri Bulgaria EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
261, Lomsko Shosse Blvd., 1220 Sofia, Bulgaria
Represented by
Kamen Sashov Gogov, Kalina Stoimirova Tchakarova
Holder · RCD owner
ДАЕСФ АДvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
ул."Поручик Неделчо Бончев" №8, 1528 София, Bulgaria
Represented by
Desislava Dancheva-Vasileva
Prior art cited (1)
Familia ice-cream container with brownish labelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8a5iocjH0 · YouTube · disclosed 2010-05-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder appealed, arguing the YouTube screenshots did not validly prove disclosure of a sufficiently identified prior design and that the compared designs created different overall impressions.
- ›The invalidity applicant replied that the YouTube material and screenshots proved public disclosure on 27 May 2010 and that the prior Familia container produced the same overall impression as the contested RCD.
- ›The Board accepted the appeal-stage evidence, found the YouTube screenshots sufficient to prove prior disclosure, and held that the shared obround transparent tub-and-lid shape dominated the overall impression.
- ›The Board confirmed lack of individual character under Article 25(1)(b) and Article 6 CDR, dismissed the appeal, and ordered the design holder to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberH. Salmi
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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