Invalidity · first instance · 2023-01-23
000119298
Contested design: 008029995-0002
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
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 008029995-0002 is declared invalid. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Skirmshopvia PDF extraction
Netherlands (NL)
Schouw 27, 1771 EP Wieringerwerf, Netherlands
Represented by
Diana Versteeg
Holder · RCD owner
Snipermechanics Ltdvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
24 Stoneham Close, Lewes East Sussex bn72et, United Kingdom
Prior art cited (1)
projectile design
Community design No. 00007995667-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2020-06-12
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over an earlier Community design published on 12/06/2020.
- ›The holder filed observations after the deadline; the Division did not take them into account.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier design through its publication in the Community Designs Bulletin before the contested filing date.
- ›It found the designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user, so the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b).
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
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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