Invalidity · first instance · 2019-06-07
000104759
Contested design: 004462000-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear 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 0044620000001 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicant’s cost fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
PENTA CZ s.r.o.
Czechia (CZ)
Povážská 266, 386 06 Strakonice – Přední Ptákovice, Czechia
Represented by
Jiří Macek
Holder · RCD owner
Lifewellness
Poland (PL)
Al. Jerozolimskie 200, 02 486 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Wojciech Gierszewski
Prior art cited (1)
Wide Mouth Slow Juicer / slow juicer
HH918B · SGS Fimko Ltd. test report corroborated by pro-forma and commercial invoices · disclosed 2015-07-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over an earlier slow juicer design disclosed before 2017-11-01.
- ›To prove disclosure, applicant relied on a 2015 SGS test report plus 2016 pro-forma and 2017 commercial invoices for product HH918B; the holder filed no response.
- ›The Division found the documents mutually corroborative and sufficient to prove public disclosure under Article 7, with no rebuttal from the holder.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom and the designs' near-identical shape, chute, lid and base, the contested design created the same overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was invalidated in full, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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