Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-11
000121362
Contested design: 003564582-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 003564582-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Episcopia Ortodoxa Romana a Devei si Hunedoareivia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Andrei Saguna nr. 1, Loc. Deva, Jud. Hunedoara, Deva, Romania
Represented by
Răzvan Dincă
Holder · RCD owner
Sandor Andorvia PDF extraction
Hungary (HU)
Belsonyir Tanya 93/d, 6000 Kecskemet, Hungary
Prior art cited (1)
Online article showing a portrait of Father Arsenie Boca
https://adevarul.ro/stiri-locale/hunedoara/top-3-teorii-ale-conspiratiei-cu-arsenie-boca-a-1733175.html · adevarul.ro · disclosed 2016-09-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier public disclosures of the same portrait of Father Arsenie Boca.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure or the applicant’s comparison.
- ›The Division accepted the 4 September 2016 web article as prior disclosure and found the designer’s freedom not substantially limited despite depicting a specific person.
- ›Because the portrait, posture, clothing, and visual impression were essentially the same, the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- 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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