Invalidity · first instance · 2022-01-11
000115142
Contested design: 007755640-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder’s costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 007755640-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Cambro Manufacturing Companyvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
5801 Skylab Road, Huntington Beach, California 92647, United States of America
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Koçel Plastik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Şirketivia PDF extraction
Türkiye (TR)
GEPOSB Ýnönü mah. 9. Cad. 82. Sok. No. 10, Gebze, Kocaeli 41400, Turkey
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
food trays
RCD No 000675087-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2007-03-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character and for conflict with its earlier RCD No 000675087-0001 covering food trays.
- ›The holder argued the designs were not identical and pointed to differences in rim curvature, grip features, bottom projections, and material.
- ›The Division held Article 25(1)(d) CDR was inapplicable because the earlier RCD had been published before the contested design's filing date.
- ›The Division found the designs created different overall impressions on the informed user, so the contested design remained new and had individual character; the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENE
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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