Invalidity · first instance · 2023-01-13
000117076
Contested design: 004352300-0013
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Der Antrag auf Nichtigerklärung des eingetragenen Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmusters Nr. 004352300-0013 wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Die Antragstellerin trägt die Kosten der Inhaberin, die auf 400 EUR festgesetzt werden.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Plásticos Industriales y Comerciales de Alfarrasi, S.L.via PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Picda, Crta. Nacional 340, s/n, 46893 Alfarrasi, Spanien
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Papier-Mettler KG
Germany (DE)
Hochwaldstrasse 22, 54497 Morbach, Deutschland
Prior art cited (6)
plastic carrier bag
publicidadmerchandising.blogspot.com/2016/04/publicidad-merchandising_21.html · weblog · disclosed 2016-04-21
plastic carrier bag
publicidadmerchandising.blogspot.com/2016/04/publicidad-merchandising_21.html · weblog · disclosed 2016-04-21
plastic carrier bag
plastic carrier bag
plastic carrier bag
plastic carrier bag
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, arguing the contested bag-handle design had long been disclosed through earlier carrier-bag designs D1 to D6 and related online evidence.
- ›The holder argued the contested design remained new and individual, stressing differences in material, handle attachment, colour treatment and seam structure, and disputing any decisive market saturation.
- ›The Division held that only D1 was properly evidenced as disclosed; the remaining relied-on designs and declarations were insufficiently identified or documented and were disregarded.
- ›Comparing D1 with the contested design, the Division found a different overall impression on the informed user, so D1 destroyed neither individual character nor novelty.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected in full and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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