Invalidity · first instance · 2018-06-22
000010619
Contested design: 002590778-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 002590778-0001 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicant's costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jaime Vilas-Boas de Campos e Castro
Portugal (PT)
R Vieira Portuense 61, 4050-624 Porto, Portugal
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Grandemola, Produtos de Higiene e Limpeza, Lda.via PDF extraction
Portugal (PT)
Rua de Esteves, 393, Apartado 525, 4435-233 Rio Tinto, Portugal
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
clothes peg
Portuguese industrial model No 19 704 · Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property Bulletin 11/1988
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant relied on earlier Portuguese industrial model No 19 704 and argued that the contested clothes peg lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder challenged the quality and translation of the applicant's evidence and argued that design differences created novelty and individual character.
- ›The Division accepted the earlier Portuguese design as sufficiently proven and publicly disclosed before the contested RCD filing date.
- ›It found the differences either minor or tied to technically constrained features, so the same overall impression remained on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 6, and the RCD was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGaile SAKALAITĖ
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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