Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-23
000121568
Contested design: 005299211-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 005299211-0003 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Citron Trading LLCvia PDF extraction
AE
Al Shafar Building 1, Jumeirah Street, 2nd floor office 03, Dubai 927423, United Arab Emirates
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Panagiotis Spiliopoulosvia PDF extraction
GR
5 Roumelis str., 18345 Moschato, Greece
Represented by
Ioannis Psarakis
Prior art cited (10)
bag
RCD No 004505576-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-11-16
bag design
bag design
Etsy
bag design
bag design
disclosed 2018-11-02
bag design
disclosed 2018-11-02
bag design
Etsy
bag design
bag design
BuzzFeed article "25 Pretty Pink Things That Will Make You Smile" · BuzzFeed · disclosed 2016-11-17
bag design
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on the holder's earlier RCD D1 and multiple earlier bag designs disclosed online.
- ›The holder challenged the probative value and timeliness of the internet evidence, argued some materials were untranslated or unrelated, and maintained a different overall impression.
- ›The Division limited the case to D1-D10 from the application, excluded newly introduced prior designs as inadmissible, and held D1 unusable because it fell within the Article 7(2) grace period.
- ›It found the remaining evidence insufficient to prove effective public disclosure before 06/06/2018 under Article 7, so the Article 25(1)(b) challenge failed and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
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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