Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-15
000123875
Contested design: 015010967-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 015010967-0001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Vandenberg Special Products B.V.via PDF extraction
Netherlands (NL)
Alexander Bellstraat 10, 3261 LX Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Multiple Products B.V.
Netherlands (NL)
Middenweg 18, 4631 ST Hoogerheide, Netherlands
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
packaging for smokable articles / blotters
RCD No 000968664-0001 · EUIPO designs database / Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2008-07-29
packaging for smokable articles / blotters
RCD No 000863519-0001 · EUIPO designs database / Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2008-02-20
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested packaging design lacked novelty and individual character over its earlier RCDs and that Article 25(1)(d) also applied.
- ›The holder replied that the decisive difference was the contested design's hexagonal shape and that several shared features were technically dictated by the packaging function.
- ›The Division held that Article 25(1)(d) failed because the cited earlier RCDs had been published long before, not after, the contested design's filing date.
- ›On the merits, the Division found the earlier designs were disclosed but created a different overall impression, especially because the contested design's hexagonal body and closure appearance differed.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected in full, and the applicant was ordered to pay the holder's fixed representation costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
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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