Invalidity · first instance · 2020-09-29
000109603
Contested design: 006369104-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 006369104-0002 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 (1)
word mark 'MOTO'
Croatian trade mark No Z20031164 · Croatian State Intellectual Property Office website · disclosed 2004-03-26
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity based on earlier designs and, in particular, its earlier Croatian word mark MOTO for confectionery goods, arguing the contested wafer packaging used that sign and created confusion.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply, so the applicant's evidence and trade-mark conflict arguments were left undefended.
- ›The Division found the packaging goods similar to the applicant's confectionery goods, considered MOTO and MOTTO visually, aurally and conceptually similar, and held the contested design used the earlier sign with a likelihood of confusion.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(e) CDR, the RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
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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