Invalidity · first instance · 2022-10-28
000117979
Contested design: 008771703-0001
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 008771703-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jakub Pellervia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Bohaterów Warszawy 47, 02495 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Rafał Horończyk
Holder · RCD owner
Piotr Malinowski
Poland (PL)
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90-361, Łódź, Poland
Represented by
Maria Przybylska-Karczemska
Prior art cited (1)
manicure dust collector
https://allegro.pl · allegro.pl · disclosed 2020-10-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over an earlier manicure dust collector disclosed on allegro.pl by 8 October 2020.
- ›The holders filed no observations and did not contest disclosure, designer freedom, or the design comparison.
- ›The Division accepted the Allegro web listing as prior disclosure and found at least average designer freedom in the sector.
- ›It held that the designs created the same overall impression apart from finish, so the contested design lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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