Invalidity · first instance · 2024-03-12
000121140
Contested design: 008333272-0007
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 0083332720007 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Κωνσταντίνος Παπαπαναγιώτουvia PDF extraction
GR
1st Odos Tagaradon, 57000 Thermi, Greece
Represented by
Nikolaos Papaletsos
Holder · RCD owner
Functional Backpacks LTDvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
The White House Greenall’s Avenue, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 6HL, United Kingdom
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Anthrax Deployment backpack shown on the applicant’s Instagram profile
Anthrax Machines Instagram profile · disclosed 2020-01-22
Anthrax Deployment backpack shown on the applicant’s Facebook profile
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3009833432369181&set=pcb.3009878055698052 · Anthrax Machines Facebook profile · disclosed 2020-02-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, arguing the contested design copied its earlier Anthrax Deployment backpack disclosed online before filing.
- ›The holder disputed disclosure and argued the screenshots were incomplete or unverifiable; it also maintained that differences preserved novelty and individual character.
- ›The Division accepted the Instagram and Facebook disclosures as prior art under Article 7(1) and treated only the clearly claimed central backpack panel as protected.
- ›Comparing that protected panel with the earlier design, the Division found only immaterial differences and held the contested design not new, so the application succeeded in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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