Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-08
000125256
Contested design: 015020783-0001
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 015020783-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Carl Freudenberg KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Höhnerweg 2-4, 69469 Weinheim Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ewa Niemyjska
Poland (PL)
Dworska 5b/7, 15-756 Białystok Poland
Prior art cited (1)
mop
www.kaufland.de · www.kaufland.de · disclosed 2022-12-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier mop design disclosed online before the contested design's filing date.
- ›The holder obtained an extension to respond but filed no observations, so the application was effectively undefended.
- ›The Division accepted the Kaufland webpage evidence as a prior public disclosure by 15/12/2022 under Article 7 CDR.
- ›It found the prior and contested mop designs identical in all essential features, so the contested design lacked novelty and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberCarlos MATEO PEREZ
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| deGerman | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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