Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-21
000128075
Contested design: 015062892-0018
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design 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 015062892-0018 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Roman Omelchenkovia PDF extraction
UA
Odessa, Ukraine
Represented by
Olga Vahatova
Holder · RCD owner
Koptiev Stanislavvia PDF extraction
UA
Kherson, Ukraine
Represented by
Philipe Augusto da Silveira Cordeiro
Prior art cited (1)
Instagram screenshots showing a woman wearing a jumpsuit
Instagram account ivanasporti · disclosed 2023-01-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier Instagram disclosures of the same jumpsuit before the filing date.
- ›The holder said the cited images showed different designs, were not reasonably known in the EU, and that the Article 7(2) grace period should be extended because of the war in Ukraine.
- ›The Division held that the Instagram post in Annex 6 was a sufficient prior web disclosure, could reasonably have become known to the relevant EU trade circles, and fell outside the non-extendable grace period.
- ›Comparing the disclosed prior jumpsuit with the contested design, the Division found the same overall impression on the informed user and concluded that the contested design lacked individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberThorsten ICKENROTH
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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