Invalidity · first instance · 2024-03-25
000121694
Contested design: 015011005-0001
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 0150110050001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Creative Bags S.R.L.via PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Căminului nr. 71, Manolache, jud. Ilfov, Romania
Represented by
Marilena Comanescu
Holder · RCD owner
SC Flexomatei S.R.L.via PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Balastierei nr. 6, 625100 Adjud, Vrancea, Romania
Represented by
Mara Cîju
Prior art cited (1)
pouches
RCD No 0002985670001 · Community Design Bulletin · disclosed 2005-04-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on an earlier published RCD for pouches.
- ›The holder argued prior Benelux registration and Romanian copyright, and said differences in shape, colors, and construction created a different overall impression.
- ›The Division held the earlier RCD was properly disclosed by publication and that copyright or Benelux claims were irrelevant to assessing the registered contested design.
- ›Given broad design freedom for food paper bags, the differences were minor and the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6 CDR.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
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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