Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-24
000121526
Contested design: 005299211-0001
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity against registered Community design No 005299211 is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
1. Se-desestima la solicitud de declaración de nulidad del modelo comunitario registrado n.º 005299211. 2. Se condena al solicitante a que sufrague las costas del titular, fijadas en 400 EUR.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Citron Trading LLCvia PDF extraction
AE
Al Shafar Building 1, Jumeirah Street, 2ª office 03, Dubai 927423, Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Panagiotis Spiliopoulosvia PDF extraction
GR
5 Roumelis str., 18345 Moschato, Grecia
Represented by
Ioannis Psarakis
Prior art cited (10)
bag
RCD No 004505576-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-11-16
bag design
bag design
bag design
bag design
disclosed 2018-11-02
bag design
disclosed 2018-11-02
bag design
bag design
bag design
BuzzFeed · disclosed 2016-11-17
bag design
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested bag design lacked novelty and individual character over the holder's earlier RCD D1 and nine additional bag designs identified as D2 to D10.
- ›The holder challenged the evidential value of the applicant's hyperlinks and extracts, argued that several disclosures were unreliable or irrelevant, and maintained that the contested design created a different overall impression.
- ›The Division held that only D1 to D10 were timely invoked; annexes 2 to 8 and 11 were inadmissible new prior art, while annex 10 and one screenshot in annex 9 only supplemented certain already-invoked designs.
- ›D1 was disregarded under the Article 7(2) grace period, and the applicant failed to prove effective prior disclosure of D2 to D10 under Article 7(1), so the invalidity application was rejected with costs against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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