Invalidity · first instance · 2018-12-19
000102460
Contested design: 003851252-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 003851252-0003 is rejected. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Tri Star Ltd
UA
Polevaya str. 5, Cherniakhovka village, Kirovograd region, Cherniakhovka, Ukraine
Holder · RCD owner
Ionel-Alin Nitavia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Sos. Oltenitei, 133, bl.55 sc. 1, ap. 4, Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Ruxandra Raluca Ardeleanu
Prior art cited (5)
Printout from a Polish website showing small images of the applicant's packaging/products.
gieldaspozywcza.pl · gieldaspozywcza.pl · disclosed 2013-03-31
Image showing part of the packaging design in a leaflet about the Hausmesse Monolith 2015 exhibition.
Hausmesse Monolith 2015 leaflet · Hausmesse Monolith 2015 leaflet · disclosed 2015-09-01
Website excerpts about fairs and exhibitions in Ukraine and Germany showing the applicant's products.
Various websites
Printouts from the VK social media portal showing the applicant's packaging used in trade.
VK · VK
Facebook printouts showing images of the applicant's packaging.
www.facebook.com · Facebook · disclosed 2015-11-25
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the holder registered the contested packaging design in bad faith and that the design had been disclosed by the applicant since 2013 in trade, exhibitions, publications and online.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division held that bad faith is not an available invalidity ground under Article 25(1) and that the submitted annexes did not objectively prove prior disclosure of a sufficiently visible corresponding design before the filing date.
- ›Because prior disclosure under Article 7 was not established, the Division did not assess novelty or individual character further and rejected the application.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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