Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-07
000111343
Contested design: 003173756-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear EUR 750 in costs.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0031737560001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lafat komerc d.o.o.
BA
Industrijska zona bb, 75260 Kalesija, Bosnia y Herzegovina
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
SC Biodome Europe SRL
Romania (RO)
Str. Florilor 4, sc. A, ap 20, Sighisoara, Judetul Mures, Sighisoara, Romania
Represented by
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested design is an internal component of a pellet boiler and is never visible during normal use, so it fails Article 4(2) CDR.
- ›The holder accepted the design is inside the boiler but argued end users regularly see relevant parts while cleaning, which it said forms part of normal use.
- ›The Division held pellet boilers are complex products and that cleaning is maintenance or preparation, not normal use; when operating, the component remains hidden behind the closed casing.
- ›The invalidity application was upheld because none of the contested design's features are visible during normal use, so the RCD was declared invalid in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
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