Invalidity · first instance · 2021-11-30
000110062
Contested design: 006385068-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0063850680001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Profplastvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Stary Węgrzynów 39, 28350 Słupia Jedrzejowska, Poland
Represented by
Anna Maja Sokołowska-Ławniczak
Holder · RCD owner
Nuitech LTDvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
C220d Trident Business Centre 89, Bickersteth Road, London, City of London SW17 9SH, United Kingdom
Prior art cited (3)
sales of plastic clamping profiles PF1B2 and PF1C2 for air filters
Invoice FU/2017/000265 · invoice and delivery confirmation to Kluge Luftfilter GmbH · disclosed 2017-12-07
downloadable PDF catalogue showing a pocket filter in a plastic frame with clamping profiles PF1B2 and PF1C2
applicant website
archived ASMP webpage depicting PF1B2 and PF1C2 products and referring to the applicant
Wayback Machine / ASMP website · disclosed 2016-11-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity under Article 25(1)(b) CDR, arguing its PF1B2 and PF1C2 air-filter profiles had been disclosed before the contested design was filed.
- ›Holder argued the application effectively relied on Article 25(1)(d), the designs differed in visible shape and colour, and the disclosure evidence was insufficient.
- ›The Division held the application was clearly based on Article 25(1)(b) and accepted the catalogue, invoices and archived webpage as solid evidence of prior disclosure.
- ›After comparing the registered drawings with the earlier profiles, the Division found only immaterial differences, held the designs identical under Article 5(2), and declared the RCD invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENE
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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