Invalidity · first instance · 2019-04-01
000103400
Contested design: 004697357-0022
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear the applicant’s costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 004697357-0022 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
Duralex International
France (FR)
7, rue du Petit Bois, 45380 La Chapelle Saint Mesmin, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ștefania-Lăcrămioara Bociuvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Sec 1, Str. Făurei Nr. 5, Bl. C9, Sc. C, Ap. 82, Bucharest, Romania
Represented by
Claudia Monica Frisch
Prior art cited (3)
Technical drawing dated 06/03/1987 for the Beau Rivage 23.5 cm plate.
Applicant technical drawing · disclosed 1987-03-06
Beau Rivage collection plate shown in the applicant’s 1999 catalogue.
Duralex 1999 · Duralex 1999 catalogue
Beau Rivage collection plate shown in the applicant’s 2006 catalogue and again in Les collections 2012.
The glassware catalogue 2006 · The glassware catalogue 2006; Les collections 2012
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on Beau Rivage platter disclosures and asserting market sales since 1987.
- ›The holder filed no observations or evidence in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the catalogue evidence as prior disclosure under Article 7, but not the internal technical drawing on its own.
- ›Given the designer’s broad freedom and the strong similarity in contours and surface pattern, the contested RCD produced the same overall impression as D2.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs of EUR 750 were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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