Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-25
000114103
Contested design: 007733712-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear the applicants' costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0077337120003 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 (1)
Metz 44L Classic Colour Cabin Backpack
www.cabinmax.com · cabinmax.com · disclosed 2013-12-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicants argued the contested cabin backpack design had been disclosed before filing through the Cabin Max Metz backpack offered on cabinmax.com and therefore lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not rebut the applicants' evidence of disclosure or their design comparison.
- ›The Division accepted the Annex 4 website screenshots as proof that prior design D1 was publicly available at least by 2013-12-28 and found the main disclosed view identical to the contested design.
- ›The additional rear and opened views added no significant differentiating features, so the contested design lacked individual character and had to be invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
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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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