Invalidity · first instance · 2025-06-25
000124779
Contested design: 004731347-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; Registered EU design No 004731347-0005 is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 004731347-0005 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Airtechnic - Chatzoudis Etaireia Periorismenis Euthynis
GR
Nea Chalkidona, Athens, Greece
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
D.Ellinas Factory Products LTD
CY
Limassol, Cyprus
Represented by
Konstantina Diola
Prior art cited (1)
holder's earlier linear grille design for air conditioning
P.V.C. products 2015 · holder catalogue · disclosed 2015-12-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested air-conditioning grille lacked novelty and individual character over the holder's 2015 catalogue disclosure, and that rear springs were solely functional under Article 8(1).
- ›The holder contested disclosure, novelty, and technical-function objections, invoked the Article 7 grace period, and relied on Cyprus court proceedings and its later catalogues.
- ›The Division rejected the Article 8(1) attack on the design as a whole, finding only the rear springs purely functional and excluding them from the comparison.
- ›The Division accepted the 2015 holder catalogue as prior disclosure, found the remaining differences immaterial under Article 5(2), and declared the contested design invalid with costs against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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