Invalidity · first instance · 2023-01-25
000118659
Contested design: 008887723-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must bear the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 008887723-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
SC Ocean Fish SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
DN 2 KM 14, Com. Afumati Nr. 72, Romania
Holder · RCD owner
S.C. Negro 2000 SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
B-dul Metalurgiei, nr. 136, sector 4, Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Claudiu Feraru
Prior art cited (3)
food bag
RCD No 008568935-0001 · EUIPO Community Designs Register · disclosed 2021-06-10
food bag
RCD No 008568935-0002 · EUIPO Community Designs Register · disclosed 2021-06-10
figurative mark in the form of a food bag for fish and seafood products
EUTM No 18 358 300 · EUIPO Trade Mark Register · disclosed 2021-06-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity under Article 25(1)(d) and (e) based on two earlier RCDs and an earlier EUTM for food-bag packaging allegedly sharing the same shape and colour placement.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division held Article 25(1)(d) did not apply because the cited earlier RCDs had been published before, not after, the contested design’s filing date.
- ›Under Article 25(1)(e), the earlier mark and the sign used in the contested design were visually, aurally and conceptually dissimilar, so there was no prohibited use or likelihood of confusion.
- ›The application was rejected in full and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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