Invalidity · first instance · 2023-10-26
000121571
Contested design: 015009750-0001
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 015009750-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Domain Menada Eoodvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
Business Park Sofia 1, bl. 4, fl. 2, Sofia, Bulgaria
Represented by
Deyan Vulchev Ivanov
Holder · RCD owner
Nuvo Konseptvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
бул. Ал.Дондуков № 57, вх. А, ет.1, ап. 6, 1000 СОФИЯ, Bulgaria
Represented by
Atanas Kostov
Prior art cited (2)
bottles
RCD No. 008438477-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-03-02
Metro Romania hypermarket brochure showing the applicant's bottle design sold in 2012-2013
www.issuu.com · Issuu
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the holder re-filed an already invalidated bottle design and that the contested design lacked novelty over earlier RCD 008438477-0002.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found bad-faith and public-policy complaints inadmissible, but accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD through its 2 March 2021 bulletin publication.
- ›Because the prior and contested bottle designs were identical in all features, the contested design lacked novelty and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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