Invalidity · first instance · 2022-12-14
000118240
Contested design: 008825897-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant’s costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008825897-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Activeshop sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
Graniczna 8B DC2A, 54-610 Wrocław, Poland
Represented by
Agnieszka Byra
Holder · RCD owner
Mollylac Michał Szewczyk
Poland (PL)
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90-361 Łódź, Poland
Represented by
Maria Przybylska-Karczemska
Prior art cited (1)
manicure drill shown in a product-review video
youtube.com · YouTube · disclosed 2019-01-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity under Article 25(1)(b) CDR, arguing that an earlier manicure drill disclosed on YouTube destroyed the contested design’s individual character.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not rebut the applicant’s evidence of prior disclosure or the claimed similarity between the designs.
- ›The Division accepted the YouTube screenshot as prior disclosure, found broad design freedom, and held that minor graphic, colour and unseen-part differences did not change the overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character; the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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