Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-16
000123377
Contested design: 015001545-0001
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld; Registered Community design No 015001545-0001 is declared invalid; the holder must bear the costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(it)
1. La domanda di dichiarazione di nullità è accolta. 2. Il disegno o modello comunitario registrato n. 015001545-0001 è dichiarato nullo. 3. Il titolare sopporta l’onere delle spese, fissate a 750 EUR.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Spray Moret, LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
1411 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10018, Stati Uniti d’America
Holder · RCD owner
Daniel Terrellvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Flat 13 1, Wapping High Street E1w1bh, Londra, Regno Unito
Prior art cited (1)
figurative 'shark mouth' mark
EUTM No 18 342 626 · EUIPO · disclosed 2020-11-21
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity under Article 25(1)(e) CDR, arguing that the contested design used its earlier figurative EU trade mark representing a shark mouth.
- ›The holders disputed invalidity, pointed to pending Naples litigation, argued the signs were evidently different, and claimed the earlier mark was weak and long used on the market.
- ›The Division found the parallel litigation and attacks on the earlier mark irrelevant here, and treated the cited EUTM as valid, earlier, and capable of grounding the invalidity claim.
- ›It found the products identical, the signs at least moderately visually similar and conceptually identical, and therefore a likelihood of confusion under the applicable trade mark rules.
- ›The invalidity application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and costs were fixed against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberJessica N. LEWIS
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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