Invalidity · first instance · 2024-07-11
000124720
Contested design: 015001456-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015001456-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Crocs, Inc.via PDF extraction
United States (US)
13601 Via Varra, Broomfield Colorado 80020 United States
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Sufang Yan
SK
Martinčekova 780/12, mestská časť Ružinov, 82109 Bratislava, Slovakia
Prior art cited (1)
beach shoes with heel strap
Community design registration No 002662288-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2015-03-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character based on an earlier published Community design registration.
- ›The applicant relied on Community design registration No 002662288-0002, published on 30/03/2015, as prior disclosure.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the prior design validly disclosed and almost identical overall, so the contested design lacked individual character and had to be invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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