Invalidity · first instance · 2023-01-31
000116648
Contested design: 008587638-0001
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 0085876380001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Krzysztof Kułakowskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Gutki 4, 37-450 Nisko, Poland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Creative Cooper Jacek Kułakowskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Niezłomnych 33, 37450 Stalowa Wola, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
barrel bar furniture offered for sale on gadgets.pl
https://www.gadgets.pl/ · Wayback Machine / gadgets.pl · disclosed 2020-06-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested barrel bar lacked novelty and individual character over an earlier barrel-furniture design disclosed online before the filing date.
- ›The holder said the earlier barrel created a different overall impression, challenged the disclosure evidence, and invoked the Article 7(2) grace period based on the parties’ prior business relationship.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted the Wayback Machine evidence as prior disclosure, found the grace period inapplicable because the first disclosure predated it, and treated the product sector as composite furniture for storing beverages.
- ›Given the sufficiently broad design freedom, the Division found the extra rings and darker wood insufficient to change the overall impression and declared the contested design invalid for lack of individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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