Invalidity · first instance · 2020-05-21
000109224
Contested design: 006427399-0003
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 006427399-0003 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
Crocs, Inc.via PDF extraction
United States (US)
7477 East Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot, Colorado 80503, United States of America
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Jia Weivia PDF extraction
Czechia (CZ)
Tiskařská 599/12, 108 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Community Design No 002142125-0002 · Office designs database / Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-12-10
Community Design No 002302000-0001 · Office designs database / Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2013-09-11
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested clog design was identical to earlier Community designs D1 and D2, or at least lacked individual character in light of them.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division found D1 had been validly disclosed and that novelty failed because material visual differences remained, but the common clog features created the same overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld for lack of individual character; the contested RCD was invalidated, D2 was not examined further, and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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