Invalidity · first instance · 2022-02-25
000113421
Contested design: 002419424-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 002419424-0004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Alve Components Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
Migowska 41, 80-287 Gdańsk, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
BONARI Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
ul. Zwycięzców 42/53, 03-938 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
prior door profile named 'Calgary'
'Calgary' profile / Indeco S.A. catalogue and website · Indeco S.A. catalogue and website via Internet Archive · disclosed 2012-02-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over the earlier 'Calgary' sliding-door profile marketed by Indeco S.A.
- ›Holder argued the catalogue had already been found insufficient in earlier appeal proceedings and that the compared profiles differed visibly, especially in the buffer-brush mounting area.
- ›The Division found disclosure proven by the third-party catalogue together with Internet Archive evidence and treated alleged width and corner differences as negligible overall.
- ›Because the only noticeable difference lay in a technically constrained brush-mounting feature, the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
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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