Invalidity · first instance · 2021-08-03
000114943
Contested design: 008263115-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 008263115-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Antonio Puig, S.Avia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Plaza Europa, 46-48, 08902, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Zou Chunliang
China (CN)
BLDG21 2T-502, Yunshan County, Congyun Road, Baiyun District,Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (3)
female torso-shaped bottle
International design registration No DM/024377, design No 1 · WIPO International Register · disclosed 1993-01-29
female torso-shaped bottle
Swedish design registration No M 55 597 · Swedish design register · disclosed 1994-05-11
female torso-shaped bottle mark
French three-dimensional trade mark registration No 92 440 690 · French INPI · disclosed 1992-12-18
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over two earlier bottle designs and for conflict with an earlier French three-dimensional trade mark.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier designs and the existence of the earlier mark, but found the contested bottle created a different overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The Division also found no likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark because visual differences outweighed the low conceptual similarity, despite identical bottles.
- ›The application was rejected in full and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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