Invalidity · first instance · 2022-06-21
000117472
Contested design: 008624936-0001
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 008624936-0001 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
Parfitt Creative LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
18001 29TH AVE NE, Lake Forest Park Washington 98155-4014, United States
Holder · RCD owner
MakeWithLove
Poland (PL)
ul. Dereniowa 2/11, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
BINK refillable personal drinking bottle shown in Instagram screenshots
Instagram profile 'binkmade' · disclosed 2020-12-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that its BINK bottle had been disclosed before the filing date on its website, Instagram, and its distributor's materials, and that the contested design copied its overall shape and structure.
- ›The holder submitted no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Instagram screenshots, especially Annex 10 dated 03/12/2020, as sufficient internet disclosure of prior design D1 under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom, the markings and BINK wording were insignificant differences, so the contested design created the same overall impression as D1 and lacked individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
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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