Invalidity · first instance · 2020-06-19
000107819
Contested design: 006477600-0001
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 006477600-0001 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
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 registration No D1300020-0001 · DesignView database · disclosed 2014-04-28
registered Romanian trade mark allegedly identical to the contested design
Romanian trade mark No 107353 · Romanian trade mark database
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier Hungarian design D1300020-0001 and also invoked its Romanian trade mark No 107353.
- ›The holder argued designer freedom was constrained, the RCD had not been previously disclosed, its features created novelty and individual character, and the trade mark ground was abusive or functional.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the Hungarian prior design through DesignView and found that the shared core shape features dominated the informed user’s overall impression.
- ›The application succeeded under Article 25(1)(b) with Articles 4 and 6 CDR; the RCD was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
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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