Invalidity · first instance · 2019-03-15
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Contested design: 004066413-0001
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 0040664130001 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
Mada Sweet Adam Pawłowskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Polna 7, 26026 Morawica, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
TREBOR Robert Bilkiewiczvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Obrońców Wybrzeża 25 B/107, 80398 Gdańsk, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (5)
mixer
United States patent No 1,201,284 · United States patent · disclosed 1916-10-17
article depicting a cocktail shaker design
Who Made That Cocktail Shaker? · New York Times Magazine online · disclosed 2014-09-05
photo titled 'Bartender preparing cocktail in Martini glass and a shaker'
istockphoto.com · istockphoto.com · disclosed 2013-10-03
YouTube screenshot depicting a shaker
youtube.com · YouTube · disclosed 2015-08-13
Amazon offer for Cresimo 24-Ounce Stainless Steel Martini Cocktail Shaker and Jigger with Cocktail Recipes EBook (4 Piece Set)
amazon.com · Amazon.com · disclosed 2015-10-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested lollipop-container design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier shaker disclosures, especially D2, and that designer freedom was virtually unlimited.
- ›The holder argued the cited designs were not identical, created different overall impressions, belonged to different product sectors, and the differences would be noticed by the informed user.
- ›The Division treated later bad-faith and copyright allegations as inadmissible, accepted D2 as sufficiently disclosed under Article 7(1), and rejected novelty because the differences were not immaterial.
- ›The Division found the overall shapes almost identical, the differences minor given virtually unlimited designer freedom, and concluded the contested RCD lacked individual character and had to be invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
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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