Invalidity · first instance · 2021-10-27
000112484
Contested design: 007761895-0002
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 007761895-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jürgen Heckelsmüllervia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Ottobeurer Straße 15, 87784 Westerheim, Germany
Represented by
Reiner Helge
Holder · RCD owner
Michał Cukrowski
Poland (PL)
Ul. Wybickiego 72/6, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Represented by
Katarzyna Natalia Krupa-Lipińwka
Prior art cited (1)
grating design for ground reinforcement / protective grilles
Community design registration No 005301595-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-07-02
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD D1, arguing the designs were essentially identical grating plates.
- ›The holder argued the designs differed in chamber shape, grid density, connectors, openings, and embossments, and said technical constraints for airfield gratings limited design freedom.
- ›The Division found D1 had been validly disclosed, considered designer freedom relatively broad, and held the visual differences were too minor to alter the overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application succeeded under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 6(1)(b), so the contested design was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
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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