Invalidity · first instance · 2020-11-06
000109061
Contested design: 003850601-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 350.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 003850601-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant's costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
SC Gold Glass SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Lt. Col. Dumitru Papazoglu, Nr. 60, Et.2, Ap. 10, Sector 3, 031203 Bucharest, Romania
Holder · RCD owner
Semir Raad Marokivia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
str. Faurei nr. 5, bloc C9, sc. C, ap. 82, Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Claudia Monica Frisch
Prior art cited (2)
transparent glass bowl with decorative cut pattern
https://www.facebook.com/amerandgold/photos/pcb.741699179332479/741698039332593/?type=3&theater · Facebook commercial platform account “Amber Glass & Gold glass” · disclosed 2017-02-26
Amber Glass & Gold glass catalogue showing the same glass bowl design
Amber Glass & Gold glass catalogue (2016/2017)
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier glass bowl design disclosed on Facebook and in a 2016/2017 catalogue.
- ›The holder disputed solid proof of disclosure and argued any disclosure fell within the Article 7 exception because the relevant circles would not reasonably have known of it.
- ›The Division found the Facebook posts and catalogue provided solid, mutually corroborating evidence of prior disclosure and the holder offered no facts undermining that showing.
- ›Comparing the bowls, the Division held their shape and decorative cut patterns created the same overall impression on the informed user despite minor pattern differences and a bottom view.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid for lack of individual character, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
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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