Invalidity · first instance · 2022-03-15
000115702
Contested design: 008419774-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0084197740001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
UAB’Medienos granulės’via PDF extraction
LT
Perkūnkiemio g. 1391, 12114 Vilnius, Lithuania
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
UAB ‘POLYWOOD’via PDF extraction
LT
Kęstučio str. 34301, 08112 Vilnius, Lithuania
Prior art cited (2)
figurative mark containing 'HOLZ PELLETS' and tree device for fuel pellets packaging
EUTM No 18 407 447 · TMView
identical earlier Lithuanian figurative mark invoked alongside the EUTM
Lithuanian trade mark No 85 466 (application No 2021 0191) · Lithuanian IP Office trade mark database
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested packaging design reproduced its earlier Lithuanian and EU figurative HOLZ PELLETS marks for identical or highly similar fuel-pellet goods, so invalidity should follow under Article 25(1)(e).
- ›Holder referred to prior business relations, certifications, opposition against the Lithuanian mark, and its own investments, but it did not dispute the earlier dates or strong sign similarity and later filed no reply.
- ›The Division treated the holder's certification and reputation arguments as irrelevant and accepted that the EUTM had valid priority from 29/01/2021, earlier than the contested design's filing date.
- ›It found the earlier mark was almost identically reproduced in the packaging, the relevant goods were highly similar or complementary, and average EU consumers would face a likelihood of confusion.
- ›The application succeeded under Article 25(1)(e); the RCD was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to reimburse EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberJessica N. LEWIS
- MemberCarmen SÁNCHEZ PALOMARES
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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