Invalidity · first instance · 2021-05-12
000114361
Contested design: 006301503-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicants’ fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0063015030001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicants’ costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Luigi Aprilevia PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Croce Rossa N 147, 80047 San Giuseppe Vesuviano (NA), Italy
Holder · RCD owner
Creative 7 UK Ltd
United Kingdom (GB)
Creative 7, Miners Road, Llay Industrial Estate Wrexham, LL12 0PJ Wrexham, Wrecsam, United Kingdom
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
Universal Cabin Bag – 2 in 1 Expandable Cabin Backpack & Ryanair Compatible Shoulder Bag
www.cabinmax.com · cabinmax.com · disclosed 2017-01-25
prior design CABIN GO 556
CABIN GO 556 · disclosed 2009-11-27
Viedouce Borsa per Pannolini Zaino Fasciatolo
Design 85364
Design 85364
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicants sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying mainly on prior design D1 and also on D2 to D4.
- ›They argued D1 had been disclosed online before filing and that the contested flight bag reproduced the same design.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not rebut the evidence of prior disclosure or the comparison advanced by the applicants.
- ›The Division accepted D1 as a prior internet disclosure and found the contested RCD created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| 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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