Invalidity · first instance · 2023-05-31
000119099
Contested design: 001437388-0001
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 0014373880001 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
Gabi Jerczyński SP. K.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Piaski 9A, 63645 Łęka Opatowska, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
Henryk Kaczorowski Fabryka Mebli Piaski w spadkuvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Piaski 1C, 63645 Łęka Opatowska, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
corner sofa
RCD No 0025400050024 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2014-10-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over earlier RCD No 0025400050024, arguing the compared corner sofas shared the same essential overall features.
- ›The holder argued the contested design was new and individually distinctive, relied on a crowded prior-art field, and pointed to differences in the backrests, seats, armrest, legs and two-tone appearance.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD, found designer freedom high for corner-sofa configuration, and held the claimed market saturation was not dense enough to reduce the importance of visible differences.
- ›The Division found the similarities concerned common sofa features, while the differences in freely developed features produced a different overall impression; the invalidity application was therefore rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberAlfonso CID GONZALEZ
Decision files
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