Invalidity · first instance · 2019-02-25
000011041
Contested design: 002693952-0014
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 002693952-0014 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
JMT Jarosław Tabaka
Poland (PL)
ul. Wojska Polskiego 7, 62 300 Września, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
"Awmet" Wolniewicz Spółka Jawnavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Chrzanów Duży nr 8 B, 05-825 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
profiled fence connector
Community design No 002405795-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2014-02-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier Community design No 002405795-0001, and also alleged bad faith and lack of entitlement by the holder.
- ›The holder argued the contested connector remained new and had individual character because of a fringe in the clasp and differences in the holes' size, shape, and placement.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD had been validly disclosed, but the identified differences were not immaterial so novelty was not destroyed.
- ›The Division held the common L-shaped connector features dominated the overall impression, the designer's freedom was not limited, and the contested design lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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