Invalidity · first instance · 2023-07-19
000120866
Contested design: 008568935-0001
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 008568935-0001 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
S.C. NEGRO 2000 SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
B-dul Metalurgiei, nr. 136, sector 4, Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Claudiu Feraru
Holder · RCD owner
SC Ocean Fish SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
DN 2 KM 14, Jud. Ilfov, Com. Afumati Nr. 72, Romania
Prior art cited (4)
packaging design
RCD No 001921487-0056 · DesignView / Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2011-10-06
Chinese packaging design
Design No 201630551970.0 · China / trademark.orbit.com · disclosed 2017-05-03
Chinese packaging design
Design No 200930084162.8 · China / trademark.orbit.com · disclosed 2010-05-12
Chinese packaging design
Application No 201930288187.3 · China / trademark.orbit.com · disclosed 2020-04-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over four earlier packaging designs, including an earlier RCD and three Chinese design registrations.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of D1 to D4 but found the contested design's colours, proportions and ship-and-birds imagery created a different overall impression despite similar wavy-line layout.
- ›Because the differences were not immaterial, the design was both novel and of individual character; the invalidity application was rejected and costs awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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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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