Invalidity · first instance · 2024-07-19
000122758
Contested design: 001466098-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested registered Community design is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
Se estima la solicitud de declaración de nulidad. Se declara nulo el dibujo o modelo comunitario registrado n.º 001466098-0003. Las costas sufragadas por la titular, fijadas en 750 EUR.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
MAR-S sp. z o.o. S.K.Avia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Namysłowska 9B, 63640 Bralin, Polonia
Holder · RCD owner
Sagan FM Gabriela WEstrucsala Spółka Komandytowavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Poznańska 6, 63-600 KPO pno, Polonia
Represented by
Marta Koremba
Prior art cited (2)
third-party catalog extract showing the corner sofa "LOFT"
Oferta Handlowa Wajnert Meble, Ceny Netto, Cennik Obowiazuje OD 17, Listopada 2015 · Wajnert Meble catalog · disclosed 2015-11-17
third-party catalog extract showing the same corner sofa "LOFT"
DIAMENT meblarstwa 2016 · DIAMENT meblarstwa catalog
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier catalog disclosures of the corner sofa "LOFT".
- ›The holder argued the application was insufficiently reasoned, the market was saturated, designer freedom was limited, and the compared sofas created a different overall impression.
- ›The Division found the application sufficiently substantiated, accepted the 2015 and 2016 catalog extracts as prior disclosures, and held that designer freedom for corner sofas was high.
- ›Because the contested design produced the same overall impression as the earlier "LOFT" sofa, it lacked individual character and the application was upheld in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberCollin para manuel
- 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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