Invalidity · first instance · 2019-02-06
000102340
Contested design: 004060838-0002
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 004060838-0002 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
Vulcanus design s.r.o.via PDF extraction
Czechia (CZ)
Lazecká 344/4a, Lazce, 779 00 Olomouc, Czechia
Represented by
Petr Soukup
Holder · RCD owner
Syzan Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
ul. Krzemieniecka 2, Łódź, Poland
Prior art cited (4)
fire pit
RCD No 003793041-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-03-22
fire pit
RCD No 003793041-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-03-22
fire pit
RCD No 003793041-0003 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-03-22
fire pit
RCD No 003793041-0004 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-03-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over four earlier RCDs and also invoked Article 25(1)(e) based on its own earlier designs.
- ›The holder filed observations after the deadline, and the Division did not take them into account.
- ›The Division accepted D1 to D4 as disclosed earlier designs but found no identical design and a different overall impression because the contested design combined a bowl with three bases.
- ›The Article 25(1)(e) ground was inadmissible because earlier RCDs are not earlier distinctive signs; the application was rejected in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberGailé SAKALAITÉ
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
Decision files
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| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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