Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2025-06-23
R1158/2024-3
Contested design: 002370700-0073
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
ТОП ТЕНvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
ul. Zhelezarska no. 9, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Represented by
Stoyan Sirakov
Holder · RCD owner
DOORS BULGARIA EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
j.k. "Pobeda", bl. 9, floor 2, app. 10, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
Represented by
Kostadin Manev
Prior art cited (1)
door shown on archived webpage
http://sdelalremont.ru/kak-vybrat-mezhkomnatnuyu-dver-pravilno.html (Internet Archive capture) · Internet Archive / Wayback Machine · disclosed 2013-08-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder appealed and sought suspension, arguing a Sofia court counterclaim preceded the EUIPO case and that the Wayback Machine material was unreliable and uncertified.
- ›The invalidity applicant opposed suspension, said the national counterclaim was not effectively pending first, and maintained the archived webpage clearly proved pre-filing disclosure of the prior door design.
- ›The Board refused suspension because the Sofia City Court had stayed its proceedings in favour of the Office and that ruling had become final.
- ›The Board held the Internet Archive screenshot and webpage printout sufficiently proved public disclosure on 23 August 2013; abstract manipulation concerns and generic archive disclaimers did not undermine their probative value.
- ›The prior design destroyed the contested REUD's individual character, so the appeal was dismissed and the design holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys Bacon
- RapporteurA. Pohlmann
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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