Invalidity · first instance · 2018-12-20
000011043
Contested design: 004161800-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 004161800-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lafat komerc d.o.o.
BA
Industrijska zona bb, 57260 Kalesija, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Represented by
Tadej Černivec
Holder · RCD owner
Biodom 27 d.o.o., proizvodnja, trgovina in storitvevia PDF extraction
SI
OIC — Hrpelje 14A, 6240 Kozina, Slovenia
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
international design application based on a prior Bosnian national application
BAD17706A · Bosnia and Herzegovina · disclosed 2017-05-30
notification of publication of the Bosnian national design application
BAD17706A · Bosnian State Intellectual Property Office
photograph of the product incorporating the earlier design
disclosed 2016-05-07
Bosnian national design application
BAD17706A · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, conflict with an earlier international/national design, and unauthorised use of a copyright work under Bosnian law.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply and left the application undefended on the merits.
- ›The Division disregarded untranslated Bosnian design documents, found no proof of a valid earlier international right effective in the EU, and no proof of copyright entitlement.
- ›It also found no solid and objective evidence that the earlier design had been made available to the public, so the Articles 5 and 6 challenge failed and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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