Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-15
000126956
Contested design: 008624837-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested registered Community design is declared invalid, and the holder is ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
Se estima la solicitud de declaración de nulidad. Se declara nulo el dibujo o modelo comunitario registrado no 008624837-0001. Se condena al titular a que sufrague las costas, fijadas en 750 EUR.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Marta Kaliszewska-Haśkavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Polonia
Represented by
Magdalena Tarała
Holder · RCD owner
Anna Krystyniak
Poland (PL)
Warszawa, Polonia
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Instagram post showing a crescent-shaped pendant worn by a woman
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFliqbEGMlf · Instagram · disclosed 2016-05-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested jewellery design lacked novelty and individual character, relying in particular on a 19 May 2016 Instagram disclosure of an identical crescent pendant.
- ›The holder said the Instagram evidence did not prove public disclosure to specialised circles and maintained the contested design remained new and individually distinctive.
- ›The Division found the Instagram extract sufficiently proved disclosure under Article 7(1) and held the holder had not rebutted that presumption with evidence.
- ›Given the designer's broad freedom in jewellery, the prior design and contested design created the same overall impression, so the application was upheld and the design invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRebecca SANTANA
- MemberEnrico D’Errico DAVIES
Decision files
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