Invalidity · first instance · 2020-05-26
000105981
Contested design: 001379754-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 001379754-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dragflow S.R.L.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Satiro, 11, 37121 Verona, Italy
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Lännen MCE Oy
Finland (FI)
Hirvikoskentie 242, 32210 Loimaa, Finland
Represented by
Prior art cited (3)
Watermaster machine Classic IV shown in the holder's newsletter
Newsletter 2011 · Watermaster newsletter
Watermaster Classic IV dredger shown in the holder's newsletter
Newsletter 2012 · Watermaster newsletter
Internet Archive capture of the holder's 'Brochures (PDF)' webpage linking Watermaster newsletters and Watermaster Classic IV
http://www.watermaster.fi · Internet Archive Wayback Machine · disclosed 2012-07-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, arguing the same Watermaster machine had been disclosed before filing through the holder's 2011 and 2012 newsletters and website archives.
- ›The holder denied identity and challenged the Wayback Machine evidence, arguing the newsletter models differed in the support arms and claws and that the archive was unreliable.
- ›The Division accepted the newsletters and archived webpage as sufficient disclosure evidence and found no material visual differences between the earlier machine and the contested design.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested RCD lacked novelty under Article 5(1)(b); the Division did not need to decide the Article 8(1) point.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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