Invalidity · first instance · 2019-06-25
000101841
Contested design: 000753942-0001
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 000753942-0001 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
Ayano Holland B.V.
Netherlands (NL)
Franse Akker 25, Breda 4824, the Netherlands
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Richard Andrews
United Kingdom (GB)
The Glasshouse, Highfields Business Park, Kneesworth, SG8 5JT, United Kingdom
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
Maison du Whisky glass
www.whiskycircus.com · whiskycircus.com · disclosed 2006-09-11
international design registration shown in DesignView
D068099-0070 · DesignView · disclosed 2014-09-04
Glencairn whisky glass
IRENA drawings and invoice for a glass product
IR 5778 · IRENA · disclosed 2007-06-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity because the contested whisky glass design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier whisky-glass designs, especially prior design A.
- ›The holder disputed disclosure of the earlier designs and argued the Maison du Whisky glass could fall within the Article 7(2) grace period due to his business relationship.
- ›The Division accepted the applicant's web and supplementary evidence as sufficient to prove disclosure of prior design A before the RCD filing date.
- ›Comparing the registered design with prior design A, the Division found nearly identical overall shape and no different overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid for lack of individual character, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
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| 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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