Invalidity · first instance · 2023-02-23
000117373
Contested design: 007907183-0001
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 0079071830001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Joanna Rafalskavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Gen. Władysława Sikorskiego 26/64, 40282 Katowice, Poland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Biovico Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
Hutnicza 15B, 81061 Gdynia, Poland
Represented by
Małgorzata Matyka
Prior art cited (1)
surgical instrument workpiece with a hooked or crescent-shaped blade
PL 224646 B1 · Polish Patent Office database · disclosed 2017-01-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant claimed the contested surgical-instrument part lacked novelty and individual character because similar devices had been marketed earlier and Annex 7 disclosed the same hooked blade shape.
- ›The holder challenged the applicant's evidence, argued Annex 7 was different and untranslated, and said technical constraints standardised many features of surgical devices.
- ›The Division accepted Annex 7 as a prior disclosure, identified the informed user as someone familiar with surgical instruments, and treated the designer's freedom as average.
- ›It found both designs created the same overall impression through the identical hooked tip, upheld the invalidity application, and declared the contested design invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
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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