Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-14
000122534
Contested design: 008805501-0001
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 008805501-0001 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, 54-610 Wrocław, Poland
Represented by
Agnieszka Byra
Holder · RCD owner
Piotr Malinowski
Poland (PL)
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90-361 Łódź, Poland
Represented by
Maria Przybylska-Karczemska
Prior art cited (1)
abrasive cap for nail milling machines
https://archiwum.allegro.pl · Allegro online archive · disclosed 2020-01-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on an earlier abrasive cap disclosed in an Allegro auction ending on 8 January 2020.
- ›Holders argued the prior disclosure did not defeat the design and that functional constraints made differences in length, proportions, colour and abrasive grain sufficient to change the overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted the Allegro archive extract as proof of public disclosure under Article 7 and treated the relevant product sector as abrasive caps.
- ›Given at least average design freedom, the Division found the designs conveyed the same overall impression to the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was invalidated in full, and costs were fixed against the holders.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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