Invalidity · first instance · 2020-06-19
000107802
Contested design: 006477600-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 006477600-0003 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
Aquamix, S.R.L.via PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Belani Nr.85, Jud. Covasna, Belani, Romania
Holder · RCD owner
Comix system Termelő, Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft.
Hungary (HU)
Nagymágocs, Szántó Kovács János u. 4., 6622, Hungary
Represented by
Adelina Stanciu
Prior art cited (2)
siphon heads
Hungarian design No D1300020-0001 · DesignView database · disclosed 2014-04-28
applicant's registered Romanian trade mark
Romanian trade mark No 107353 · Romanian trade mark database
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over Hungarian design D1300020-0001 and also invoked its Romanian trade mark as a prior distinctive sign.
- ›Holder argued designer freedom was limited, the contested siphon head had distinctive modernised features and a different overall impression, and the trade mark attack was abusive and technically driven.
- ›The Division treated the DesignView extract as solid proof that the Hungarian design had been disclosed before the RCD filing date.
- ›It found the shared overall shape and main features dominated, while the yellow extension, branding, colour, material and minor body-shape differences did not change the informed user's overall impression.
- ›The application succeeded under Article 25(1)(b) with Articles 4 and 6 CDR, so the RCD was invalidated and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
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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