Invalidity · first instance · 2019-09-25
000106359
Contested design: 002168971-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 002168971-0003 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
Marmi Scala s.r.l
Italy (IT)
Via Prealpi 21, 37023 Stallavena (VR), Italy
Represented by
Magdalena Tarała
Holder · RCD owner
MT LTD. Spółka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnością
Poland (PL)
ul. Grzybowska 87, 00-844 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Włodzimierz Januszkiewicz
Prior art cited (1)
windowsill design shown on the Promotor website
http://www.promotor.tarnow.pl/oferta/category/parapety_z__aglomarmuru-13 · Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) · disclosed 2012-08-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested windowsill design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier designs disclosed online, relying in particular on archived website evidence labelled D1.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure, novelty, or individual character.
- ›The Division accepted the Internet Archive screenshot as reliable evidence that D1 was publicly available before filing and found the earlier and contested designs visually identical.
- ›The application was upheld because the RCD was not new under Article 5, so the Division did not need to assess the separate Article 6 claim.
Deciding panel
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
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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