Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-24
000126095
Contested design: 015006128-0001
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 015006128-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Glock Gesellschaft m.b.H.via PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Gaston-Glock-Park 1, 9170 Ferlach, Austria
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Changchun Qiaochu Chouxin Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 5016, 5F, R&D Technology Center, Jilin Advertising Creative (Cultural), Jingyue Development Zone, Changchun City 130000, China
Represented by
Jörg Brettschneider
Prior art cited (1)
figurative mark 'GLOCK'
EUTM No 6 639 678 · EUIPO trade mark database · disclosed 2009-01-20
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant relied on earlier EUTM No 6 639 678 for toy guns, arguing the stylised GLOCK sign used on the contested toy-gun design infringed its mark under Article 25(1)(e) CDR.
- ›Holder was invited to comment but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the goods identical and the sign on the design visually highly similar, aurally identical, and conceptually identical or neutral compared with the earlier mark.
- ›It concluded there was a likelihood of confusion, upheld the invalidity application, declared the design invalid, and did not examine the alternative Article 25(1)(b) grounds.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENÉ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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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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