Invalidity · first instance · 2024-03-01
000121039
Contested design: 001470041-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 001470041-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Patryk Zieleźnicki trading as Stretch Concept Patryk Zieleźnickivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Szkolna, nr 1, lok. A, 05503 Głosków, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
Folpol Robert Barzyk, Jacek Cyganvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Mikołaja Reja 6, 05532 Wólka Załęska, Poland
Represented by
Joanna Kluczewska-Strojny
Prior art cited (1)
Stretch film having heat-sealed edges
EP 1 095 759 · European Patent Office patent database · disclosed 2004-11-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and at least individual character over prior plastic-foil designs, relying in particular on EP 1 095 759.
- ›Holder denied any lack of novelty or individual character, stressed visible-edge differences, and cited two earlier failed invalidity actions against the same design.
- ›The Division held the patent document disclosed the prior design before the filing date and found the designer's freedom at least average in the plastic-foil sector.
- ›It found only minor edge and overlap differences, insufficient to change the overall impression on the informed user, so the design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
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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