Invalidity · first instance · 2021-09-22
000115385
Contested design: 008438477-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0084384770005 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 (1)
0.5L alcoholic beverage bottle shown in a Metro Romania catalogue and related web postings
https://issuu.com/proomo-romania/docs/mcc_romania_mp24_oferte_alimentare ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXR8ij8QSZg ; news-eustache-muriel.blogspot.com/2013/07/concurs-unirea-si-sankt-petersburg-2013.html · Issuu / YouTube / Blogspot · disclosed 2012-10-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character based on an earlier 0.5L alcoholic-beverage bottle disclosed online in 2012.
- ›The holder argued the application lacked a legal basis and no identical or same-overall-impression prior design had been shown.
- ›The Division accepted the internet evidence as prior disclosure and found the bottle shape and two-part label created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR, so the RCD was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
Decision files
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| 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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