Invalidity · first instance · 2022-12-15
000118858
Contested design: 006856696-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0068566960001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Andraž Šapecvia PDF extraction
SI
Bratov Učakar 80, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Donar d.o.o.via PDF extraction
SI
Kamniska cesta 41, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Represented by
Dušan Borštar
Prior art cited (1)
Collodi lounge chair work invoked by the applicant under Slovenian copyright law
Copyright certificate No R040/19 · Copyright Agency of Slovenia register and applicant website · disclosed 2019-04-26
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that he created the Collodi lounge chair in November 2018, registered it with the Slovenian Copyright Agency on 26 April 2019, and never transferred or licensed the economic rights to the holder.
- ›The holder, identified by the applicant as the producer of the chair, was invited to respond but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the Slovenian copyright certificate sufficient to show protection and authorship, so the applicant was entitled under Article 25(3) CDR to invoke the earlier work.
- ›It found the contested design did not differ from the chair shown in the website extract and copyright certificate and therefore reproduced the protected work without the author's consent.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid under Article 25(1)(f) CDR, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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