Invalidity · first instance · 2021-03-29
000113802
Contested design: 007714548-0023
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0077145480023 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Saverglass SASvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
3, Rue de la Gare, 60960, Feuquieres, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Spotlight Oral Care Limited
Ireland (IE)
Block 2 Harris House Small IDA Business Park Tuam Road, Galway, Ireland
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
bottle
RCD No 0017837470001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2010-11-23
MIKI bottle
SAVERGLASS catalogue "SPIRITUEUX SPIRIT COLLECTION", page 43 · SAVERGLASS catalogue
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over an earlier bottle design registered at EUIPO and shown in its SAVERGLASS catalogue.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD had been validly disclosed and that the catalogue images confirmed essentially the same prior bottle design for comparison purposes.
- ›It held that the bottle shape dominated the informed user’s overall impression, while the graphics and stopper had little weight, so the contested design lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
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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