Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-24
000118717
Contested design: 008752042-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay 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 0087520420001 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
Selex Trading SAvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Banul Antonache nr. 40-44, etaj 2, birou MRSF4, 011665 Mun București, Sector 1, Romania
Represented by
Viorel Ros
Holder · RCD owner
‘СИ ЕН ДЖИ ТРАК БЪЛГАРИЯ’ ООДvia PDF extraction
Bulgaria (BG)
бул. ‘Руски’ № 7, 4000 Пловдив, Bulgaria
Represented by
Rositsa Stoyanova
Prior art cited (7)
cigarette packets [packaging]
RCD No 0000107230001 · EUIPO Community Designs Register · disclosed 2004-11-30
boxes, cases, containers, (preserve) tins or cans, cigar cases, cigarette cases, tobacco jars and pouches
RCD No 0001496380001 · EUIPO Community Designs Register · disclosed 2004-06-01
packs for smokable articles, packaging and boxes [packaging]
RCD No 0038560870016 · EUIPO Community Designs Register · disclosed 2019-10-15
word mark 'UNIREA'
Romanian trade mark application No M 2001 04090, registration No 047 715 · OSIM · disclosed 2002-03-04
combined mark
Romanian trade mark application No M 2010 01124, registration No 109 325 · OSIM · disclosed 2010-09-28
word mark 'UNIREA BAUTURA SPIRTOASA'
Romanian trade mark application No M 2004 02817, registration No 060 492 · OSIM · disclosed 2004-09-27
word mark 'UNIREA PREMIUM'
Romanian trade mark application No M 2004 02818, registration No 060 493 · OSIM · disclosed 2004-09-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant claimed lack of novelty and individual character over three earlier RCDs, and unauthorised use of four earlier Romanian UNIREA trade marks.
- ›Holder filed no observations despite invitations, including after the Office reopened the adversarial stage and later resumed the proceedings.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCDs disclosed but held the contested cigarette packet differed in decoration and opening features, creating a different overall impression and remaining new.
- ›The trade mark ground was unsubstantiated and, in any event, the relied-on goods and services were dissimilar to cigarette packaging; the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
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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