Invalidity · first instance · 2019-06-06
000105299
Contested design: 003331941-0001
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 0033319410001 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
‘Mistral alko’via PDF extraction
RU
Preobrazhenskiy val, house 1, stroenie 1, Moscow 107061, Russian Federation
Holder · RCD owner
Stepan Pinciuc
MD
Ginta Latina 17/1, Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
bottle holder and bottle
Community design No 0030938300001 · Office bulletin · disclosed 2016-06-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over earlier Community design No 0030938300001, stressing the same hourglass bottle, holder structure, and bottle decoration.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply and left the applicant's comparison and legal grounds undefended.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD was disclosed by its prior publication and that the shared bottle shape, decoration, and holder construction outweighed the base-shape difference.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom, the contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user and was declared invalid in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberKelly BENNETT
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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