Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-01-13
R0028/2020-3
Contested design: 005172046-0001
Outcome
The contested decision is annulled, the invalidity application is rejected, and the invalidity applicant must bear the design holder's invalidity and appeal costs.
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1. Annuls the contested decision and rejects the application for a declaration of invalidity; 2. Orders the invalidity applicant to bear the costs incurred by the design holder in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
BRÜGGLIvia PDF extraction
Switzerland (CH)
Hofstr. 5, 8590 Romanshorn, Switzerland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ningbo Sincere Holding Group Co., ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
6F, Kaifeng BD. No.762, Zhongxing RD., Yinzhou District, Ningbo 315041, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
animal cage / pet transport cage
RCD No 441266-0002 · Community Designs Register · disclosed 2006-01-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder appealed the Invalidity Division's finding that its animal-cage design lacked individual character over several earlier registered cage designs.
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the box form, bars, hinges, locking mechanism and contrasting corner elements made the contested RCD too close to the earlier cage corpus.
- ›The Board found that the curved bridged top, side-panel structure, back-panel layout, locking mechanism and corner connectors created a clearly different overall impression from each earlier design D1-D9.
- ›Because the contested RCD retained individual character, the appeal succeeded and the invalidity application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurC. Negro
- MemberE. Fink
- Registrarp.o. R. Vidal
Decision files
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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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