Invalidity · first instance · 2020-09-15
000109641
Contested design: 006369104-0003
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
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 006369104-0003 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Karolina, d.o.o.via PDF extraction
HR
Vukovarska cesta 209/a, Osijek 31000, Croatia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ital Food EADvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
Trakiyska Str. No. 10, 9700 Shumen, Bulgaria
Represented by
Ralitsa Venelinova Dimova
Prior art cited (8)
website extracts showing wafer packaging products with user comments
www.cumparaturionline.com · cumparaturionline.com
search results allegedly showing prior wafer packaging design
Google search results for "my motto wafer" · Google
blog article "My Motto Bulgarian Cookies"
My world of snacks blog · disclosed 2014-05-23
screen captures allegedly from YouTube showing wafer packaging
YouTube screen captures · YouTube
social media extracts showing several product views
Facebook extracts · Facebook
internet extract showing a brown wafer packaging view
Minimeinsights extract · Minimeinsights
commercial leaflets from 2017 showing various wafer snack designs
commercial publications · disclosed 2017-01-01
earlier Croatian word mark MOTO
Croatian word mark No Z20031164 · Croatian State Intellectual Property Office
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant claimed the packaging design lacked novelty and individual character over several earlier online and publication disclosures and also conflicted with its earlier Croatian word mark MOTO.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division found the alleged prior design disclosures insufficiently reliable or identifiable under Article 7, so the Article 25(1)(b) challenge failed.
- ›The Division held that the contested packaging used a highly similar version of the earlier MOTO mark for similar goods, creating a likelihood of confusion in Croatia.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(e), the RCD was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
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| 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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