Invalidity · first instance · 2018-08-29
000010893
Contested design: 002576215-0003
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 0025762150003 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
Delta-Sport Handelskontor GmbH
Germany (DE)
Wragekamp 6, 22397 Hamburg, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
TCC Global N.V.
Netherlands (NL)
World Trade Centre, Zuidplein 84, 1077XV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
plush toy in the shape of a broccoli used in Italian supermarket loyalty promotions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzXJ89SryE8; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwGDtb7TVc · the grocery trader; YouTube · disclosed 2012-03-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, relying on earlier public disclosure of a broccoli-shaped plush toy before the RCD filing date.
- ›The applicant submitted a 1 March 2012 online article and YouTube screenshots from 2012 and 2013 showing the earlier plush toy in supermarket loyalty campaigns.
- ›The holder filed no observations or rebuttal evidence in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the prior design had been validly disclosed under Article 7 CDR and that the contested design was identical in its relevant features.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear the applicant's costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
- MemberAlvaro SESMA
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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