Invalidity · first instance · 2025-11-04
000129262
Contested design: 015043977-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 0150439770003 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Iulian Adrian Calotavia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
sat Pasărea, com. Brănești, Romania
Represented by
Crina Frisch
Holder · RCD owner
Veroniki Ecogrup SRLvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Elena Grecu
Prior art cited (1)
trays for food packaging
National design registration No 022921 · Romanian Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2022-02-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested food-container design reproduced an earlier Romanian design and lacked novelty and individual character under the EUDR.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted Romanian national design No 022921 as publicly disclosed before the filing date and found broad similarities in shape, bottom pattern, side ridges, and top edges.
- ›It held that the minor semicircular bottom-detail difference did not alter the overall impression, so the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
- 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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