Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-05-27
R1829/2019-3
Contested design: 001842295-0002
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed and the invalidity applicant must bear the costs of both 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, Germany
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
electrical connector
RCD No 1733239-0003 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2010-07-22
electrical connector
RCD No 1691577-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2010-04-14
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant argued that the contested electrical connector was not visible in normal use and lacked individual character over the holder’s earlier RCDs Nos 1733239-0003 and 1691577-0001.
- ›The design holder argued that those earlier designs were its own disclosures and therefore protected by the Article 7(2) grace period.
- ›The Board held that the earlier registered designs could not be relied on because they were published within the grace period before filing of the contested RCD.
- ›The appeal was dismissed and the invalidity applicant was ordered to bear the costs of both instances.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- Registrarp.o. R. Vidal
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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