Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-14
000126032
Contested design: 008629117-0009
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Dem Antrag auf Nichtigerklärung wird stattgegeben. 2. Das eingetragene Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster Nr. 008629117-0009 wird für nichtig erklärt. 3. Die Inhaberin trägt die Kosten, die auf 750 EUR festgesetzt werden.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Association GYIvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
78, allée Primavera Centre Ubidoca 20837, 74370 Annecy, Frankreich
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Stada Arzneimittel AGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Stadastr. 2-18, 61118 Bad Vilbel, Deutschland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
older label design shown on archived aliud.de webpages
https://web.archive.org/web/20160403065902/http://www.aliud.de/arzneimittel/rezeptfreie-arzneimittel/; https://web.archive.org/web/20160319195501im_/http://www.aliud.de/media/527236/product-icon_0008_harnansaeuerung.jpg · Internet Archive Wayback Machine / aliud.de · disclosed 2016-03-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, arguing that identical prior design D1 had been disclosed before the 26 July 2021 filing date.
- ›To prove disclosure, the applicant filed Wayback Machine screenshots and archived aliud.de URLs dated 19 March 2016 and 3 April 2016.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found D1 had been validly disclosed online under Article 7 and that the compared designs were identical with no discernible differences.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid in full, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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