Invalidity · first instance · 2019-04-01
000103939
Contested design: 004697357-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 004697357-0005 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 (5)
Technical drawing of Duralex 'Prisme' 33cl drinking glass
Duralex technical drawing · disclosed 1998-05-06
Duralex 'Prisme' 33cl drinking glass
Duralex 1999 · Duralex catalogue · disclosed 1999-01-01
Duralex 'Prisme' 33cl drinking glass
The glassware catalogue 2006 · Duralex catalogue · disclosed 2006-01-01
Duralex 'Prisme' 33cl drinking glass
Les collections 2012 · Duralex catalogue · disclosed 2012-01-01
Duralex 'Prisme' 33cl drinking glass
Duralex & you: collections 2015 · Duralex catalogue · disclosed 2015-01-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested glass lacked novelty and individual character because its Prisme 33cl glass had been sold since 1987.
- ›Holder filed no observations or evidence in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the dated catalogues as proof of prior disclosure, while the technical drawing alone did not prove public disclosure.
- ›The Division found the contested glass reproduced the prior design's overall shape and surface pattern and lacked individual character, so the RCD was invalidated.
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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