Invalidity · first instance · 2021-07-19
000114462
Contested design: 003312347-0001
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 0033123470001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lorenz Snack-World Holding GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Adelheidstr. 4/5, 30171 Hannover, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
‘POL-FOODS’ Sp. z o.o. w upadłościvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
c/o Krzysztof Gołąb, ul. Wiktorska 65 lok. 3, 02587 Warsaw, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
3D mark representing a ghost-shaped potato crisp
International trade mark registration No 642 716 B · WIPO Madrid Monitor · disclosed 1995-08-11
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant relied on Article 25(1)(e) CDR, arguing the contested crisp design used its earlier international 3D trade mark for potato-based snacks with only minor differences.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the goods identical, the signs visually similar and conceptually identical, and the earlier mark valid in Poland despite only below-average inherent distinctiveness.
- ›It concluded there was a likelihood of confusion in Poland, upheld the application under Article 25(1)(e) CDR, and declared the contested design invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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