Invalidity · first instance · 2023-01-27
000119065
Contested design: 008924948-0013
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
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0089249480013 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Puma SEvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Puma Way 1, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Jinxin Qu
China (CN)
108 Qujia Dahu Village, Chaigou Town, Gaomi City, Weifang City, Shandong Province, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
figurative trade mark 'PUMA formstrip' for footwear
EUTM No 18 200 424 · Office trade mark database · disclosed 2020-06-10
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant relied on earlier EUTM No 18 200 424 and argued the shoe-side sign in the contested design was highly similar, for identical goods, creating a likelihood of confusion.
- ›The holder filed no substantive observations within the deadline and later requested an extension due to COVID-19-related difficulties in China, without seeking re-establishment of rights.
- ›The Division assessed Article 25(1)(e) CDR with Article 9(2)(b) EUTMR, found the signs visually highly similar, the goods identical, and the earlier mark normally distinctive.
- ›The Division concluded that consumers could perceive the contested sign as the applicant's mark, upheld the invalidity application, declared the design invalid, and awarded costs against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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