Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-28
000126835
Contested design: 006147583-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 006147583-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lacma Private Joint-stock Companyvia PDF extraction
UA
Lviv, Ukraine
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Kamil Krajewskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Lublin, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
dispensing cap / screw cap design
EU design registration No 001339782-0002 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2012-08-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying primarily on earlier EU design registration No 001339782-0002.
- ›The holder argued the prior design had sufficiently different shape features and that the contested design reflected its own experience in innovative dispensing caps.
- ›The Division found the earlier EU design had been validly disclosed through its bulletin publication before the contested filing date.
- ›Comparing the designs from the informed user’s perspective, the Division held that the shared ribbed cap and tiered base structure created the same overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) EUDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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