Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-09
000118820
Contested design: 007749171-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 007749171-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
TECNOLAVAGEM SASU
France (FR)
30 rue Jean Pierre Chabrol, 77750 Saint Cyr sur Morin, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
THDA – Comercio Por Distribuição Automática Unipessoal Lda
Portugal (PT)
Rua António Fragoso, nº 18, Custóias, 4460-401 Senhora da Hora, Portugal
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Applicant's earlier 'Structure Transparence' / 'Modele Transparence' washing station design installed at Colidor sarl in Chateauneuf-les-Martigues.
Google Street View, applicant invoice, and applicant catalogue · disclosed 2017-09-25
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on its earlier Transparence washing-station design disclosed before 12 March 2020.
- ›The holder argued the prior design was not clearly identified, the evidence was unreliable, and technical constraints on the roof made small differences decisive.
- ›The Division found the Street View capture, invoice, and catalogue sufficient to prove disclosure and treated colour and material differences as irrelevant because the contested design was abstract.
- ›It held that the shared overall shape and arrangement dominated any minor differences, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
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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