Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-18
000121320
Contested design: 009076649-0006
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay 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 009076649-0006 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, 87-300 Brodnica, Poland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Mieszko S.A.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Aleje Jerozolimskie 181, 02-222 Warsaw, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
confectionery box 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 · Polish Patent Office Bulletin WUP 1/2019
applicant's catalogue showing the same confectionery box
Applicant catalogue
printouts from the parties' websites showing use of the applicant's box and confectionery packaging offers
parties' websites
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on its earlier RCD, Polish trade mark, and evidence of prior market use of similar confectionery packaging.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD disclosed, but considered the shared box-and-ribbon features banal and the differences in bow, ribbon, decoration, proportions, and the 'CHERRISSIMO' element sufficient to create a different overall impression.
- ›The application was rejected because the contested design had individual character and, for the same reasons, was also new over the prior design.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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