Invalidity · first instance · 2024-07-18
000123856
Contested design: 008684070-0001
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 0086840700001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
PPHU ARKOS Arkadiusz Pietrusvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Trębaczow 69, 63642 Perzów, Poland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Beta Line sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
ul. Obrońców Poczty Gdańskiej 104/6, 52504 Wrocław, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Modena couch shown in a third-party catalogue
Katalog 2016/2017 Nábytkáří Čech a Moravy · Nábytkáři Čech a Moravy
Archived webpage showing the 2016/2017 catalogue containing the Modena couch
https://web.archive.org/ capture of http://www.nabytkaricechamoravy.cz/letaky/katalog-2016-2017.pdf · Internet Archive · disclosed 2017-04-11
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested couch design lacked novelty and individual character because the holder had already disclosed the Modena couch through earlier sales and catalogue publications.
- ›Holder said no identical prior design had been proven, the evidence was deficient, and differences in shape, stitching, materials and other details gave the contested design its own overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted the third-party catalogue and archived webpage as reliable prior disclosure under Article 7(1) and found the holder had not rebutted public availability.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom for couches, the mirrored layout and minor differences in colour, stitching and feet did not change the overall impression, so the design lacked individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
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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