Invalidity · first instance · 2020-05-21
000109801
Contested design: 006353074-0001
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 0063530740001 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
BR International Holdings Inc.via PDF extraction
VG
Trident Chambers, Wickhams Cay, Road Town, Tortola, Virgin Islands (British)
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Khairat Al Manafievia PDF extraction
IQ
Al Waziriah nr. 1, Bagdad, Iraq
Prior art cited (1)
figurative mark depicting the front side of cigarette packaging
German figurative trade mark No 302010013845 · German Patent and Trade Mark Office database · disclosed 2010-05-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity based on earlier copyright and trade mark rights, arguing the contested cigarette-packaging design reproduced them and lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The applicant relied in particular on German figurative trade mark No 302010013845, published before the RCD filing date, as an earlier disclosed design.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier trade mark as a prior design and found the differences in colour and extra wording did not alter the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) CDR in conjunction with Article 6(1)(b), and the other invoked grounds were not examined.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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