Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-10
000121058
Contested design: 008795447-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holders 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 008795447-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holders bear the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Activeshop Sp. Z o.o.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Graniczna 8B DC2A, 54610 Wrocław, Poland
Represented by
Agnieszka Byra
Holder · RCD owner
Piotr Malinowski
Poland (PL)
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90361 Łódź, Poland
Represented by
Maria Przybylska-Karczemska
Prior art cited (2)
nail milling machine
https://allegro.pl/oferta/frezarka-sprint-48-srebrna-13068494268 · allegro.pl · disclosed 2021-04-04
Sprint 40 model nail milling machine
YouTube · disclosed 2019-01-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested nail milling machine lacked novelty and individual character over earlier market disclosures and differed only in immaterial details.
- ›Holders disputed public disclosure, said the prior design images were insufficiently visible, argued functional constraints limited design freedom, and pointed to shape and vent differences.
- ›The Division accepted the Allegro offer as an internet disclosure before 13 December 2021 and rejected the later Sprint 40 evidence as an inadmissible new prior design.
- ›It found the shared shape, proportions, and arrangement of components outweighed minor colour and detail differences, so the contested design lacked individual character.
- ›The invalidity application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holders were ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
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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