Invalidity · first instance · 2019-09-30
000106379
Contested design: 002168971-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; Registered Community Design No 002168971-0001 is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
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The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 002168971-0001 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
Marmi Scala s.r.l.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Prealpi 21, 37023 Stallavena (VR), Italy
Represented by
Magdalena Tarała
Holder · RCD owner
MT Ltd. Spółka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnościąvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Grzybowska 87, 00-844 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Włodzimierz Januszkiewicz
Prior art cited (2)
archived web page showing a decorative surface/design applied to a windowsill
www.jachon.com · Internet Archive · disclosed 2010-07-26
web page with depictions of rectangular windowsills
www.promotor.tarnow.pl · promotor.tarnow.pl
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested windowsill design lacked novelty and individual character because highly similar stone-surface designs had been disclosed online before the filing date.
- ›It also argued that the rectangular windowsill shape was common and technically constrained, so that feature could not confer protection under Article 8(1) CDR.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted Annex 2 as a prior web disclosure and found that minor differences in colour and grain did not alter the very similar overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld on Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 6 CDR, so the RCD was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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