Invalidity · first instance · 2025-08-18
000127155
Contested design: 015035965-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 0150359650001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Arika s.r.o.via PDF extraction
SK
Nižná, Slovakia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
McLLOYD’S s.r.o.via PDF extraction
SK
Marcelová, Slovakia
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
dinosaur-shaped snack design
EU design No 0024838670003 · European Union Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2014-06-18
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier EU design No 0024838670003 published before the filing date.
- ›The holder argued the designs differed in colour, head, legs and tail, and that those cumulative differences gave the contested snack design a different overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier EU design through its bulletin publication and assessed individual character first for procedural economy.
- ›The Division found the identified differences fell within normal variation for such food products and did not change the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Articles 4(1) and 6, so the contested design was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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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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