Invalidity · first instance · 2024-01-24
000121246
Contested design: 008164818-0001
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 0081648180001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jiří Kotoučvia PDF extraction
Czechia (CZ)
Přerovská 561, 75201 Kojetín, Czechia
Represented by
Simona Hejdová
Holder · RCD owner
X Shift Gearboxes s.r.o.
Czechia (CZ)
Drahy 883, 768 11, Chropyně, Czechia
Represented by
Jiří Trávníček
Prior art cited (1)
Facebook posts showing the earlier gearbox design
Facebook · disclosed 2019-02-02
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the holder had self-disclosed the contested gearbox design on Facebook on 2 February 2019, before the grace period, and that the contested design lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not rebut the applicant's evidence or arguments.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted the Facebook screenshots as a public disclosure under Article 7 CDR and found the prior and contested designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Articles 25(1)(b), 4(1), and 6(1)(b) CDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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