Invalidity · first instance · 2024-03-28
000121834
Contested design: 015009327-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 350 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015009327-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Carl Freudenberg KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Höhnerweg 2-4, 69469 Weinheim, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Mama Margaret sp. z o.o. sp.k.
Poland (PL)
Trzmiela 2, 60-185 Skórzewo, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
Mops (Accessories for -)
Community design registration No 009142763-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2022-08-12
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier registered mop designs disclosed before the filing date.
- ›The holder argued the product incorporating the contested design had already been launched for sale before publication of the cited earlier design.
- ›The Division treated earlier RCD No 009142763-0002 as disclosed through its Bulletin publication and focused its assessment on individual character.
- ›It found the compared mop designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user, so the application was upheld and the contested design declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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