Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-03
000119241
Contested design: 000739966-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested registered Community design is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
1. Se estima la solicitud de declaración de nulidad. 2. Se declara nulo el dibujo o modelo comunitario registrado n.º 000739966-0004. 3. Se condena al titular a que sufrague las costas del solicitante, que se fijan en 750 EUR.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Laboratoires Filorga Cosmetiques société par actions simplifiée à associé uniquevia PDF extraction
France (FR)
2-4 rue de Lisbonne, 75008 Paris, Francia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Aniceto Canamasas Puigbo
Spain (ES)
Avenida de la Fama, 129, 08940 Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, España
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Phelityl Cream cream jar shown on the beautynet.de webpage
https://web.archive.org/web/20050309082028/http://www.beautynet.de/P-300106029|PHELITYL%20CREAM%20von%20Erno%20Laszlo.html · beautynet.de / Internet Archive · disclosed 2005-03-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier cream-jar disclosures, including an archived beautynet.de Phelityl Cream webpage dated 9 March 2005.
- ›The holder argued the cited evidence did not reliably prove source, date, or EU-sector knowledge, challenged admissibility, and maintained that the contested jar created a different overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted the archived German webpage as sufficiently identified prior disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and found that the designer retained broad freedom apart from the basic need for a closable container.
- ›Comparing the designs, the Division found the shared square opaque jar shape with rounded edges and circular opening decisive, held the visible differences too minor to alter the overall impression, and declared the RCD invalid with costs against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberCarmen SÁNCHEZ PALOMARES
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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