Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2025-06-05
R0476/2025-3
Contested design: 015002922-0001
Outcome
The Board closed the appeal after its withdrawal and ordered the invalidity applicant to bear the design holder's appeal costs.
Show verbatim operative text
Takes note of the withdrawal of the appeal and declares the appeal proceedings closed; Orders the invalidity applicant to bear the costs incurred by the design holder in the appeal proceedings.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
BB Coffee Company GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Kapellenstr. 9, 82008 Unterhaching, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Chuang-Kang Machinery Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
Taiwan (TW)
NO. 128, Yazhou Rd.,Tucheng Dist, 236042 New Taipei City, Taiwan, Province of China
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant appealed the Invalidity Division's rejection of its invalidity application against REUD No 15 002 922-0001.
- ›The appeal concerned invalidity grounds under Article 25(1)(b) EUDR with Articles 4(1), 5(1)(b) and 6(1)(b) EUDR.
- ›Before any merits review by the Board, the invalidity applicant withdrew the appeal and the Registry informed the parties that closure would follow.
- ›The Board found the appeal proceedings had become devoid of purpose, closed them, and left the first-instance decision final; the invalidity applicant bears appeal costs.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys Bacon
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberA. Pohlmann
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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