Invalidity · first instance · 2024-04-18
000122276
Contested design: 002249763-0012
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 002249763-0012 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Топ Тен EOOD
Bulgaria (BG)
ul. Zhelezarska no. 9, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Represented by
Stoyan Sirakov
Holder · RCD owner
Doors Bulgaria EOOD
Bulgaria (BG)
j.k. ‘Pobeda’, bl. 9, floor 2, app. 10, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
Represented by
Kostadin Manev
Prior art cited (1)
MDF door with window shown in a Vesta Logistics promotional brochure
Vesta Logistics promotional brochure · disclosed 2010-05-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on several earlier designs including a Vesta Logistics brochure showing an MDF door with window.
- ›The holder disputed disclosure, dating, and identification of the prior designs, and argued the contested design created a different overall impression.
- ›The Invalidity Division found the brochure reliably dated, sufficiently distributed, and adequate to disclose the relied-on prior design under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Comparing the designs from the informed user's perspective and considering broad design freedom for door fronts, the Division found only immaterial differences and the same overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
Decision files
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