Invalidity · first instance · 2019-09-13
000105599
Contested design: 002853366-0001
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 002853366-0001 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
TJL Trading Limited
United Kingdom (GB)
Burscott Cottage, Burscott Lane, Higher Clovelly, Bideford, Devon, EX39 5RR, United Kingdom
Holder · RCD owner
TruSox LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
550 Crain Highway North Unit 1, Glen Bernie, Maryland, MD 21061, United States of America
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
earlier sports sock grip-pattern design shown on the holder's website
http://www.trusox.com · TruSox website via Internet Archive Wayback Machine · disclosed 2012-04-22
YouTube screenshots showing videos of the same earlier sports sock design
YouTube · disclosed 2012-04-25
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested sock pattern lacked novelty and individual character over earlier online disclosures of the same grip-pattern sock.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted the 2012 website and YouTube disclosures as prior art made available to the public under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Novelty was not proven because one side of the earlier sock was not shown, but the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
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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