Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-01-11
R1825/2019-3
Contested design: 001733239-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed and the invalidity applicant must bear the costs of the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Die Antragstellerin trägt die Kosten des Nichtigkeits- und des Beschwerdeverfahrens.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
SWITCHLAB INC.via PDF extraction
Taiwan (TW)
8F., No. 66, Zhongzheng Rd., Xinzhuang Dist., New Taipei City 24243, Taiwan
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Hansastr. 27, 32423 Minden, Deutschland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
electrical connector / printed-circuit-board terminal block
RCD No 1691577-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2010-04-14
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the contested connector was an invisible component of a complex product and lacked individual character over the holder's earlier RCD D1.
- ›The design holder argued that D1 fell within the Article 7(2) grace period because it was the holder's own earlier publication and therefore could not be used against the contested RCD.
- ›The Board agreed with the holder that publication of the holder's own earlier registered design within the grace period did not count as earlier prior art for novelty or individual character purposes.
- ›With no qualifying earlier design under Article 7, the invalidity application failed and the appeal was dismissed.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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