Invalidity · first instance · 2020-06-25
000104879
Contested design: 005253416-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0052534160001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jerzy Pietrucha BUSINESS ASSETSvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Przemysłowa 10, 98-235 Błaszki, Poland
Represented by
Bartłomiej Emil Fijałkowski
Holder · RCD owner
Robert Kaleski
Poland (PL)
Bukowa 6 95-100 Zgierz, Poland
Prior art cited (2)
Polish patent application for 'Road drain and manner of its assembly in the road structure'
P.422495 · Polish Patent Office · disclosed 2019-02-11
Pietrucha company catalogue showing road drains / vinyl road drainage
Pietrucha
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity under Article 25(1)(b) CDR for lack of novelty and individual character based on a design shown in a Polish patent application and a company catalogue.
- ›The holder argued the contested RCD met the novelty and individual-character requirements and that disclosure of the alleged earlier design had not been proven.
- ›The Division found suspension unnecessary because the invalidity claim failed anyway, and it held the patent materials lacked a publication date while the catalogue was undated and did not clearly identify the relied-on design.
- ›Because none of the evidence proved prior public disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR, the application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
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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