Invalidity · first instance · 2025-02-06
000124084
Contested design: 015002573-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; Registered Community design No 015002573-0005 is declared invalid.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 015002573-0005 is declared invalid.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Design e More S.A.via PDF extraction
Portugal (PT)
Rua das Casas Queimadas, nº 567 Grijó, 4415-439 Grijó - Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
But Fashion Solutions S.A.
Portugal (PT)
Estrada Nacional nr3, 2380 Alcanena, Portugal
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
boots
RCD No 004594802-0005 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-01-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying mainly on earlier RCD No 004594802-0005 for boots.
- ›The holder argued its boot design had a distinct overall impression and invoked its earlier Misty110 and DUSK models to challenge the applicant's position.
- ›The Division held the applicant's earlier RCD was validly disclosed by publication and found the holder's evidence about other models irrelevant to this invalidity comparison.
- ›Given broad design freedom, the shared boot shape and identical crisscross ribbon arrangement dominated minor sole differences, so the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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