Invalidity · first instance · 2019-07-30
000104719
Contested design: 005269842-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 005269842-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
xbest.pl Sp. z o.o. Sp. k.
Poland (PL)
Aleje Jerozolimskie street 96, 00-807 Warsaw, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
FIBRAIN Spółka z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnościąvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Zaczernie 190F, 36062 Zaczernie, Poland
Prior art cited (2)
fibre closure design shown in a 3M catalogue page
3M catalogue
fibre closure design shown in the applicant's catalogue
applicant catalogue
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on two earlier fibre-closure designs labelled D1 and D2.
- ›The holder argued it had disclosed the contested design in November 2017 within the grace period and that the applicant's disclosure came later.
- ›The Division found the catalogue pages, customs clearance and invoice did not objectively prove effective public disclosure of D1 or D2 before 16/05/2018.
- ›Because prior disclosure was not proven under Article 7(1) CDR, the invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
Decision files
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| 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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