Invalidity · first instance · 2024-09-05
000124999
Contested design: 015047101-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0150471010001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Kemes Commerce GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Rolandstraße 23, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Europapa Handels GmbH
Germany (DE)
Am Bahndamm 5, 41334, Nettetal, Germany
Prior art cited (1)
packaging cartons
RCD No 0150279140001 · Community design register · disclosed 2023-07-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD No 0150279140001, arguing the box shape dominated and the graphics were secondary.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD but found the contested design's colours and graphical layout formed part of the overall impression and materially differentiated it.
- ›The Division found the contested design had individual character and novelty over the prior design, so the invalidity application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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