Invalidity · first instance · 2025-12-22
000127175
Contested design: 015051087-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder’s costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0150510870003 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Steven Madden, Ltd.via PDF extraction
United States (US)
Long Island City, United States
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ganni A/Svia PDF extraction
Denmark (DK)
København K, Denmark
Represented by
Prior art cited (7)
buckle ballerina shoe
disclosed 2021-11-18
shoes
EU design No 150306140001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2024-01-03
buckles
EU design No 150349370001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2023-10-05
buckles
EU design No 150349370002 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2023-10-05
ASOS Design fantasy studded flat sandals
post snippet showing sandals
disclosed 2020-03-25
undated image of sandals
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant claimed the contested sandal lacked novelty over an earlier buckle ballerina design, related earlier EU designs, and additional sandal disclosures D5 to D7.
- ›The holder argued D2 to D4 were its own disclosures within the 12-month grace period and that none of the cited designs was identical to the contested sandal.
- ›The Division refused the late individual-character theory as a new ground, found D1 and D5 to D7 not properly proven as disclosures, and treated D2 to D4 as excluded by Article 7(2).
- ›Because no novelty-destroying prior design was validly established, the invalidity application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
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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