Invalidity · first instance · 2025-09-26
000126196
Contested design: 000845342-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0008453420003 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
A. Schreiber KGvia PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Wien, Austria
Holder · RCD owner
Illés Csók és Társa Vegyeskereskedő Kft
Hungary (HU)
Budapest, Hungary
Represented by
Prior art cited (8)
front part of a nasal aspirator nose piece shown on packaging imagery
https://www.orrszivoporszivo.hu · Wayback Machine / orrszivoporszivo.hu · disclosed 2005-12-17
front part of a nasal aspirator nose piece shown on packaging imagery
https://www.orrszivoporszivo.hu · Wayback Machine / orrszivoporszivo.hu · disclosed 2006-01-27
front part of a nasal aspirator nose piece shown on BABY-VAC website imagery
Wayback Machine / BABY-VAC website · disclosed 2006-01-03
BabyExpo advertisement allegedly showing the front part of a nasal aspirator nose piece
claimed Oberösterreichische Nachrichten / BABYEXPO extract · disclosed 2005-06-12
nasal aspirator nose piece allegedly exhibited and sold at Baby Expo events, supported by affidavit, product photos, flyers and poster
Baby Expo exhibitions in Graz and Vienna / affidavit of sales partner
Baby Expo photographs allegedly showing the prior nasal aspirator nose piece
Baby Expo exhibitions in Graz and Vienna / affidavit of sales partner's spouse
claimed layout of a new Austrian packaging box showing the nasal aspirator
claimed internet order / packaging imagery showing the nasal aspirator nose piece
Wayback Machine · disclosed 2006-01-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested bulb-syringe design lacked novelty and individual character because the same nose-piece front part had already been disclosed online, in advertising, and at Baby Expo exhibitions in 2005 and 2006.
- ›Holder replied that the evidence was unclear, largely undated, and partly confidential within the parties' exclusive distribution relationship, so public disclosure and reliable identification of the prior design were not proven.
- ›The Division held that the website printouts, advertisement, affidavits, flyers, posters, and exhibition photographs did not clearly identify the same prior design or establish dated public disclosure under Article 7(1).
- ›Because disclosure of the invoked prior design was not proven, the invalidity grounds under Articles 5 and 6 failed; the application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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