Invalidity · first instance · 2018-09-18
000011144
Contested design: 004171817-0052
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 004171817-0052 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
Antonio Puig SA
Spain (ES)
Plaza Europa 46-48, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat 08902, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Coscentra B.V.via PDF extraction
Netherlands (NL)
Wenckebachstraat 12, 6466 NC Kerkrade, Netherlands
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
earlier registered design
DM/035 072-4 · International Designs Bulletin · disclosed 1996-02-29
French design registration
942 417-001 · French intellectual property office design database · disclosed 1997-05-02
KINDLOOKS perfume bottle listing
https://www.amazon.fr · Amazon.fr · disclosed 2012-03-18
French three-dimensional trade mark
95 587 225 · French trade marks bulletin · disclosed 1995-10-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over D1 to D3 and for conflict with an earlier French three-dimensional trade mark.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply and did not rebut the applicant's disclosure evidence.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.fr KINDLOOKS bottle disclosure from 18 March 2012 as prior art made available to the public under Article 7 CDR.
- ›It found the contested design identical in all essential features to that prior bottle, so the RCD lacked novelty and had to be declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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