Invalidity · first instance · 2022-07-28
000117752
Contested design: 007729165-0001
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 0077291650001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
The Diocese of Deva and Hunedoaravia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Deva, 2, Avram Iancu st., Hunedoara County, Deva, Romania
Represented by
Răzvan Dincă
Holder · RCD owner
Alexandru Talposvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
titus popovici nr 16, Oradea, Romania
Prior art cited (1)
Book cover depicting Father Arsenie Boca in monastic clothes holding the Church of the Prislop Monastery and a cross.
Părintele Arsenie Boca, grabnic ajutător. Mărturii. Minuni · Ortodoxia Publishing House, Romania
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested design lacked novelty and individual character because an identical image had appeared on a 2014 Romanian book cover before the 2 March 2020 filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not challenge the alleged prior disclosure or the applicant's comparison of the designs.
- ›The Division accepted the book as a prior public disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and found the designer's freedom not substantially limited overall.
- ›It held that the designs created the same overall impression despite minor verbal and framing differences, so the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
- ›The invalidity application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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