Invalidity · first instance · 2024-01-04
000122295
Contested design: 003119601-0010
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
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 0031196010010 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Топ Тен EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
ul. Zhelezarska no. 9, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Represented by
Stoyan Sirakov
Holder · RCD owner
Doors Bulgaria EOODvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
j.k. 'Pobeda', bl. 9, floor 2, app. 10, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
Prior art cited (1)
door shown in Wayback Machine screenshots
http://vrati-sofia.net · Wayback Machine · disclosed 2016-05-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over several earlier designs.
- ›Applicant relied in particular on Wayback Machine screenshots of http://vrati-sofia.net archived on 7 May 2016 showing a similar door as D1.
- ›Holder filed no observations despite being invited to respond.
- ›The Division found D1 had been publicly disclosed before the filing date and that the contested design differed only in immaterial details.
- ›The application was upheld on lack of novelty under Article 5(1)(b), so the Division did not examine individual character or the remaining cited designs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberCarmen SÁNCHEZ PALOMARES
Decision files
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| esSpanish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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