Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-18
000121263
Contested design: 009076649-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 009076649-0004 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
Vobro Spółka z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnością Spółka Komandytowavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Podgórna 78, 87300 Brodnica, Poland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Mieszko S.A.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Aleje Jerozolimskie 181, 02222 Warsaw, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
earlier confectionery box design with ribbon and bow
RCD No 0046913760005 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-02-09
figurative mark depicting the top of a confectionery box with ribbon and bow
Polish trade mark No R.313830 · TMview / Polish trade mark registration · disclosed 2018-04-09
printouts from the parties’ websites showing use and sales offers for the applicant’s confectionery box design and trade mark
parties' websites
applicant’s catalogue showing the confectionery box incorporating the registered design and trade mark
applicant's catalogue
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on its earlier RCD, Polish figurative trade mark, and evidence of prior commercial use for confectionery packaging.
- ›The holder, although invited, filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD, found designer freedom for ballotin packaging only partly constrained, and treated the common red box with ribbon as banal in the sector.
- ›It held that the contested design's decorative patterns, verbal element, and differently configured bow and ribbon created a different overall impression, so the design was new and had individual character.
- ›The application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
Decision files
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| 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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