Invalidity · first instance · 2022-07-25
000117007
Contested design: 008700868-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 350 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008700868-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Activeshopvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Graniczna 8B DC2A, 54-610 Wrocław Poland
Holder · RCD owner
Bartosz Manys
Poland (PL)
Zbożowa 26N/2, 32-020 Wieliczka Poland
Prior art cited (1)
electronic facial cleaner device marketed as URZADZENIE DARSONVAL LZ-006A10W
Product code 117972; URZADZENIE DARSONVAL LZ-006A10W; https://activeshop.com.pl/... · Activeshop website printout corroborated by invoice to a third company · disclosed 2017-09-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character and also alleged bad faith, relying on a website printout and a 15 September 2017 invoice for the same product.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division held bad faith is not an Article 25(1) invalidity ground, but found the invoice and website printout together sufficiently proved prior disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›It found the designs produced the same overall impression apart from an insignificant cable difference, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
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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