Invalidity · first instance · 2022-05-23
000116130
Contested design: 008147391-0001
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 0081473910001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Artur Świątekvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Krokusowa 6, 34326 Pietrzykowice, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
Andrzej Biały
Poland (PL)
Al. Wolności 20/42, 42-300 Myszków, Poland
Represented by
Daniel Kurdubski
Prior art cited (1)
'Flavor Card' under the 'Itsa Flavor' brand
https://twitter.com/ItsaFlavor/status/750790229598973952?s=20 ; https://twitter.com/ItsaFlavor/status/803644698304782337?s=20 · Twitter / Itsa Flavor · disclosed 2016-07-06
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested scent-diffuser or flavour-card design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier Itsa Flavor Twitter disclosures.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not contest the applicant's evidence.
- ›The Division accepted the 2016 Twitter screenshots and links as sufficient disclosure of the prior design under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›It found the card shape and overall appearance created the same overall impression on the informed user, so the design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI ALOISI
Decision files
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