Invalidity · first instance · 2021-09-22
000115441
Contested design: 008438477-0006
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0084384770006 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 (2)
0.2L alcoholic beverage bottle shown in the METRO Romania product catalogue
https://issuu.com/proomo-romania/docs/mcc_romania_mp24_oferte_alimentare · METRO Romania catalogue on Issuu · disclosed 2012-11-29
0.2L alcoholic beverage bottle shown on a Romanian weblog
news-eustache-muriel.blogspot.com/2013/07/concurs-unirea-si-sankt-petersburg-2013.html · Romanian weblog · disclosed 2013-07-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier 0.2L alcoholic beverage bottle disclosed in a 2012 METRO Romania catalogue and a 2013 Romanian weblog.
- ›The holder argued the application lacked a legal basis because no identical or same-impression prior design had been shown and the applicant had not compared the designs.
- ›The Division accepted the internet evidence as sufficient proof of prior disclosure under Article 7(1) and found the earlier and contested bottle designs highly similar in the bottle shape and central label features.
- ›The differences in label details were not enough to alter the overall impression on the informed user, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
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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