Invalidity · first instance · 2018-08-30
000010891
Contested design: 002576215-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 0025762150001 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 (3)
news article showing plush toys in the forms of vegetables and fruit used in Conad loyalty programme
The Goodness Gang takes Italy by Storm · the grocery trader · disclosed 2012-03-01
screenshot from commercial showing the earlier aubergine plush toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzXJ89SryE8 · YouTube · disclosed 2012-11-12
screenshots from video reporting on Unicoop Florence promotion campaign showing the earlier aubergine plush toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwGDtb7TVc · YouTube · disclosed 2013-10-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, relying on earlier disclosures of an aubergine-shaped plush toy from an online article and YouTube materials predating the contested RCD.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not rebut the applicant's facts or evidence.
- ›The Division found the submitted materials credibly disclosed the earlier plush toy before the filing date under Article 7 CDR and considered the compared designs identical apart from immaterial details.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid for lack of novelty, and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
- MemberAlvaro SESMA
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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