Invalidity · first instance · 2021-07-02
000114222
Contested design: 007373626-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant’s fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0073736260001 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
Emanuel José Marques Fertuzinhosvia PDF extraction
Portugal (PT)
Rua Sub-Devesa n.º 851, 4805334 Ponte, Guimarães, Portugal
Represented by
Joana Jorge Cerqueira
Holder · RCD owner
Francisco do Carmo Silva Mota
Portugal (PT)
Lugar do Largatal - Edifício do Montinho, 33, 2º dto., Caldas das Taipas, 4800370 Guimarães, Portugal
Represented by
Vera Alves
Prior art cited (12)
Facebook post by Cristema showing a hatchet
https://www.facebook.com/Cristema/photos/756302254432785 · Facebook · disclosed 2014-08-01
Facebook post by Roxa1908 showing a hatchet
https://www.facebook.com/roxa1908/photos/571025726576291/ · Facebook · disclosed 2018-01-13
Facebook post by a third party showing hatchets
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215862294409104&set=a.10210624113577857&type=3&theatre · Facebook · disclosed 2018-02-06
Facebook post by Jose de Freitas & Freitas LDA showing a hatchet
https://www.facebook.com/JFFLDA/photos/a.1768188966727729/2352251778321442/?type=3&theater · Facebook · disclosed 2019-06-10
YouTube video from Tescoma Portugal showing a hatchet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGNM-0CSVuc · YouTube · disclosed 2017-12-05
Invoices and declarations concerning sales of hatchets from 2014 to 2019
Annexes 3A to 3K · Commercial invoices and declarations
Catalogue extract showing three hatchets
Ménage Silnox Catalog · Ménage Silnox Catalog
Online images of hatchets published since 2016
http://www.canstockphoto.com.br · canstockphoto.com.br
Online image of a hatchet published since 2016
http://www.depositphotos.com · depositphotos.com
Pocket calendar with hatchets on the front
Old Pocket Calendar (1987) · Fábrica de Cutelarias AFTER – António Marques de Castro & Irmãos, Lda
Customer review page for a Tescoma hatchet published before 14/07/2019
https://kuchnianawidelcu.pl/product-pol-1475-Tluczek-ubijak-do-miesa-ztasakiem-TESCOMA-PRESIDENT.html · kuchnianawidelcu.pl
Catalogue images of hatchets from different catalogues
Annexes 8.A to 8.G · Various catalogues
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested hatchet design lacked novelty and individual character because similar hatchets had been publicly disclosed and sold well before the December 2019 filing date.
- ›The holder argued the evidence was deficient or manipulated, invoked the Article 7 grace period for one Facebook post, and said the RCD had been independently created.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of at least the Facebook disclosures in Annexes 1.A and 1.B and treated social-media posts as capable of proving prior public availability.
- ›Comparing D1 with the registered design, the Division found the differences marginal, the overall impression the same for the informed user, and the RCD invalid for lack of individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
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