Invalidity · first instance · 2021-09-22
000115381
Contested design: 008438477-0001
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 0084384770001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Domain Menada EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
Business Park Sofia 1, bl. 4, fl. 2, Sofia, Bulgaria
Represented by
Deyan Vulchev Ivanov
Holder · RCD owner
Nuvo Konsept EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
бул. Ал.Дондуков № 57, вх. А, ет. 1, ап. 6, 1000 София, Bulgaria
Represented by
Atanas Kostov
Prior art cited (5)
Earlier design embodied in a bottle of an alcoholic beverage sold by the applicant.
Images of the bottle and sales invoices
Earlier trade mark label published before the filing of the contested design.
TMview
Earlier trade mark label published before the filing of the contested design.
TMview
2L beverage bottle shown in the METRO Romania mp24 product catalogue.
https://issuu.com/proomo-romania/docs/mcc_romania_mp24_oferte_alimentare · www.issuu.com / METRO Romania · disclosed 2012-11-29
2L beverage bottle shown in the METRO Romania mp05 product catalogue.
https://issuu.com/proomo-romania/docs/mcc_romania_mp05_produse_alimentare · www.issuu.com / METRO Romania · disclosed 2013-03-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character, relying on an earlier bottle design, two earlier trade mark labels, and METRO Romania catalogue disclosures from 2012 and 2013.
- ›The holder argued the application lacked a legal basis because the applicant did not own the invoked trade marks and the compared subject matter differed between a bottle and two-piece labels.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted the issuu.com catalogue evidence as prior disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and focused on the mp24 2L bottle design.
- ›It found the bottle shape and the label's dominant elements created the same overall impression on the informed user, so the contested design lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
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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