Invalidity · first instance · 2020-09-21
000110521
Contested design: 007373626-0001
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 007373626-0001 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
Cutelarias Cristema, LDA.via PDF extraction
Portugal (PT)
Rua dos Lameiros, nº 577 e 605, 4805-619 Guimarães, Portugal
Represented by
Paulo Rui Da Silva Pelayo de Sousa Henriques
Holder · RCD owner
Francisco do Carmo Silva Mota
Portugal (PT)
Lugar do Largatal - Edifício do Montinho, 33, 2º dto., Caldas das Taipas, 4800-370 Guimarães, Portugal
Represented by
Vera Alves
Prior art cited (1)
Meat chopping hatchet allegedly identical to the contested design and sold on the Portuguese market before the filing date
Invoices No 31/2014A, 24/2015, 16/2016, 3856 and 03/24417; declarations in documents 4 and 6-9 · Portugal market invoices and declarations
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant claimed a hatchet identical to the contested design had been sold in Portugal before the filing date and relied on invoices and declarations about prior sales.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division held that the invoices proved sales of hatchets but not, through solid and objective evidence, the appearance of an earlier design corresponding to the declarations' images.
- ›Because prior disclosure of an earlier design was not proven under Article 7, the novelty attack under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 5(1)(b) failed and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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