Invalidity · first instance · 2019-10-24
000103661
Contested design: 004410215-0001
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 004410215-0001 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
Salomon SAS
France (FR)
Les Croiselets, 74996 Annecy Cedex 9, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Guo Guofei
SK
Tbiliská 7629/23, 831 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
'SPEEDCROSS 3 CS' footwear design
No 5 of DM/085 379 · WIPO Global Design Database · disclosed 2015-06-26
figurative EUTM
EUTM No 011 655 727 · EUIPO
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity of the contested footwear design under Articles 25(1)(b), (d) and (e) CDR, relying in particular on earlier international design DM/085 379 No 5 and a figurative EUTM.
- ›The holder argued that the informed user would notice differences in the zig-zag ornamentation, sole and lace-eyelet areas, and that common footwear features and limited design freedom reduced the significance of similarities.
- ›The Division found the informed user had relatively high attention, but the designer's freedom remained broad apart from common sole and lacing features, so small differences were insufficient.
- ›Because the contested design produced no different overall impression from the earlier international design, the Division upheld the application under Article 25(1)(d) CDR and did not examine the remaining grounds.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberKelly BENNETT
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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