Invalidity · first instance · 2025-11-04
000129264
Contested design: 015047032-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, Registered EU design No 015047032-0003 is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. he application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 015047032-0003 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 Calota
Romania (RO)
sat Pasărea, com. Brănești, Romania
Represented by
Crina Frisch
Holder · RCD owner
Veroniki Ecogrup SRL
Romania (RO)
Bucuresti, Romania
Represented by
Elena Grecu
Prior art cited (1)
trays for food packaging
National design registration No 022921 (design 2) · Romanian Designs Bulletin / State Office for Inventions and Marks of Romania · disclosed 2022-02-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested food-container design exactly reproduced an earlier Romanian design and lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of Romanian national design registration No 022921 published on 16 February 2022 and found at least average designer freedom for food boxes.
- ›Because the shared rectangular transparent container shape, bottom dot pattern, side ridges, and top edges dominated the minor differences, the contested design lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| 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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