Invalidity · first instance · 2022-10-04
000118057
Contested design: 008818637-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0088186370003 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Liviu Chertesvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Sat Feleacu (Com. Feleacu), Cluj-Napoca, Jud. Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Label Print SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
B-dul Banu Manta, Nr.21, Bl.35, Sc.B, Et.5, Ap.70, Sector 1, Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Elena Grecu
Prior art cited (1)
earlier Community design cited by the applicant
RCD No 0063496270001 · EUIPO · disclosed 2019-04-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity against the contested design under Article 25(1)(d) CDR and later tried to add Article 25(1)(b) and Article 4(1) arguments based on earlier RCD No. 0063496270001.
- ›The holder argued Article 25(1)(d) could not apply because the earlier design had been published before the contested design's filing date, and the later Article 25(1)(b) ground was not properly raised in time.
- ›The Division used Article 63(2) CDR discretion to consider late reasoning only for the already-invoked Article 25(1)(d) ground, not for a new Article 25(1)(b) ground filed outside the time limit.
- ›The Division found Article 25(1)(d) inapplicable because the cited earlier RCD was published in 2019 before the contested design's 2022 filing date, so the application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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