Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-30
000114630
Contested design: 007456025-0001
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 0074560250001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Boon Rawd Brewery Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
TH
No. 999, Samsen Road, Thanon Nakomchaisri Sub-district, Dusit District, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yunnan Xiangkeng Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 1101, Unit 2, Building 8, Block A2, Jindun Junyuan, Chenggong District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Marcella Clarke
Prior art cited (2)
Singha Beer beverage can design shown in an archived drinks industry article
https://web.archive.org/web/20170402143844/https://www.thedrinksreport.com/news/2017/17060-singha-beer-available-in-cans-in-the-United Kingdom.html · Internet Archive / thedrinksreport.com · disclosed 2017-04-02
Singha Beer beverage can design shown in an online article about the United Kingdom can launch
https://www.asia-can.com/2568/news/singha-beer-celebrates-thai-new-year-United Kingdom-can-launch/ · asia-can.com · disclosed 2017-03-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character, relying on earlier online disclosures of a Singha Beer can design before the RCD filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted the archived web pages as sufficient Article 7 disclosure evidence and found the compared can designs produced an extremely similar overall impression.
- ›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 |
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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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