Community registered designs – beware OHIM’s power to raise additional grounds of invalidity
In a couple of recent cases (ICD 8384 and ICD 8249), The Community Designs Office (OHIM) has decided they are entitled to consider certain grounds for invalidity even when those grounds were not specifically raised in the validity challenge. A Community Registered Design (CRD) is registered without examination of the merits of the application. An invalidity […]