Invalidity · first instance · 2022-05-30
000115723
Contested design: 002750349-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holders 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 002750349-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holders bear the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Donut Hive Inc.via PDF extraction
CA
1097 Lakeshore Road East, Mississauga, Ontario L5E 1E8, Canada
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Imola Blágavia PDF extraction
Hungary (HU)
Jablonka lejtő 16, 1037 Budapest, Hungary
Represented by
Petra Erős
Prior art cited (1)
Instagram image of a square doughnut design from account 'tonyssquaredonuts'
Instagram account 'tonyssquaredonuts' · disclosed 2014-12-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier square doughnut disclosures including an Instagram post dated 28 December 2014.
- ›The holders argued the design was new and distinctive, claimed they had created the shape in 2014, and said the cited US Instagram disclosure lacked relevant European connection.
- ›The Division found the Instagram post adequately proved prior public disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and that the holders had not shown why EU specialist circles could not reasonably have known of it.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom for doughnut shapes, the contested design created the same overall impression as the earlier square doughnut, so the application was upheld and the design invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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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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