Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-18
000114645
Contested design: 007471966-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested Community design 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 0074719660001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
PTM Guard, SIAvia PDF extraction
LV
Kārļa Ulmaņa gatve 2A, 1004 Riga, Latvia
Represented by
Olga Vahatova
Holder · RCD owner
313 Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
ul. Przędzalniana 60B, 15688 Białystok, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
massage element for acupressure products
Community design No 0015526050002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2009-07-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested massage-element design lacked novelty and individual character because it matched earlier Community design No 0015526050002 published before the filing date.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply and left the invalidity claims undefended.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD, found broad designer freedom, and held that minor differences in point sharpness, colour, and underside pattern did not alter the same overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR and was declared invalid in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
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