Invalidity · first instance · 2024-07-03
000124757
Contested design: 003874734-0001
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld, Registered Community design No 003874734-0001 is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Dem Antrag auf Nichtigerklärung wird stattgegeben. 2. Das eingetragene Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster Nr. 003874734-0001 wird für nichtig erklärt. 3. Die Inhaberin trägt die Kosten, die auf 750 EUR festgesetzt werden.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Orange-Sheep Holding B.V.via PDF extraction
Netherlands (NL)
Schuttersweg 8, 1217 PZ Hilversum, Niederlande
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
EnergyBalance SA
Switzerland (CH)
Postfach 844, Via della Salina 2, 6602 Muralto, Schweiz
Represented by
Robert Karehnke
Prior art cited (1)
"Biork" deodorant stick shown on an archived webpage
www.energybalance.com · Internet Archive Wayback Machine · disclosed 2014-10-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested design lacked novelty and was technically dictated, relying among other things on an archived webpage showing the "Biork" product on 4 October 2014.
- ›The holder was invited to comment on the invalidity application but filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the Wayback Machine screenshot as proof of prior disclosure under Article 7 and found the earlier product and contested design identical apart from immaterial details.
- ›The application was upheld for lack of novelty, so the Division did not examine the separate Article 8(1) technical-function ground; the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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