Invalidity · first instance · 2022-06-30
000116546
Contested design: 007720636-0001
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 007720636-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Cappa 2, s.r.o.via PDF extraction
Czechia (CZ)
Podnikatelská 565 - Běchovice, 190 11 Praha 9, Czechia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Bikers Crown, s.r.o.
Czechia (CZ)
Pražská 48/IV, 50351 Chlumec nad Cidlinou, Czechia
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
motorcycling trousers marketed as 'Trilobite 661 Parado'
https://www.trilobitemoto.cz/index.php/popular-trilobite/item/382-intermot-2018-exposition-trilobite · www.trilobitemoto.cz · disclosed 2017-05-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested motorcycle-trouser design lacked novelty and individual character because the same 'Trilobite 661 Parado' design had been disclosed on the holder's website before filing.
- ›Holder replied it had created the design itself and that the earlier marketed trousers were its own unregistered Community design later transformed into the registered contested design.
- ›The Division found the website evidence sufficiently proved pre-filing disclosure and that the 2017 disclosure fell outside the 12-month grace period under Article 7 CDR.
- ›Comparing the designs, the Division held their shared essential features created the same overall impression on the informed user, so the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- 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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