Invalidity · first instance · 2023-06-12
000119161
Contested design: 005809852-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay 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 005809852-0001 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
PolyTech A/Svia PDF extraction
Denmark (DK)
Industrivej 37, 6740 Bramming, Denmark
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Dansk Gummi Industri A/S
Denmark (DK)
Profilvej 18, 6000 Kolding, Denmark
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
containers
RCD 003301829-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2016-07-25
containers
RCD 003140003-0011 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2016-05-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, lack of individual character, and technical-function exclusivity, relying on two earlier RCD container designs.
- ›Holder argued the contested design was a distinct solid transport pad with different grooves, cavities, tapering shape, and rounded features, and denied that its appearance was solely technically dictated.
- ›The Division found the Article 8(1) claim unsubstantiated because the evidence did not show that technical function alone determined the design’s features.
- ›The Division held that the cited prior designs created different overall impressions, so the contested design remained new and possessed individual character; the invalidity application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
Decision files
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