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Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2026-04-07
R0974/2025-3
Contested design: 015058408-0001
CDRAppellant: applicant
Outcome
Appeal upheld (reversal)
The appeal is upheld, the contested decision is annulled, and the file is remitted to the examiner for continuation of the registration procedure.
Show verbatim operative text(it)
1. Il ricorso è accolto; 2. La decisione impugnata è annullata; 3. Il fascicolo è trasmesso all’esaminatore per la prosecuzione dell’iter di registrazione.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Benelli Armi S.p.A.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Urbino (PU), Italia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Article 62(1)Article 60(1)Article 60(2)Article 2(1)Article 4(1)(a)Article 1(c)Article 2a(2)(a)
Argument summary
- ›The applicant appealed the examiner's refusal of its EU design application for rifles, arguing that it did not market products in Russia and that registration of a design is neither prohibited technical assistance nor another banned service.
- ›It said the cited Russian websites and Instagram account were not managed by or linked to it, and submitted declarations, police correspondence, and company accounts to show there had been no sales to Russia since the conflict began.
- ›The Board held that the refusal decision did not individually assess that evidence and therefore failed to state adequate reasons for concluding that the applicant infringed Regulation No 833/2014.
- ›The appeal was upheld, the refusal annulled, and the case remitted to the examiner for further prosecution of the registration procedure.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys Bacon
- RapporteurS. Rizzo
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarK. Zajfert
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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