Invalidity · first instance · 2023-11-10
000121594
Contested design: 015001209-0004
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 015001209-0004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
MB ‘Baldomanija’via PDF extraction
LT
Klevų str. 3, Kiškėnai, Klaipeda district, Lithuania
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
MB ‘Cemena’via PDF extraction
LT
Varpų str. 13-29, 94276 Klaipėda, Lithuania
Prior art cited (2)
sofa with five pillows
Facebook posts · Facebook · disclosed 2018-05-25
sofa with five pillows
Facebook post · Facebook · disclosed 2020-04-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested sofa design lacked novelty and individual character over earlier sofa disclosures D1 and D2 on Facebook.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found D2 had been publicly disclosed before the filing date and that the compared sofas created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR and was declared invalid.
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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