Invalidity · first instance · 2018-01-09
000010736
Contested design: 003375898-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 003375898-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lung-Fei Chuang
Taiwan (TW)
No. 17, Lane 301, Nanyang Rd, Fongyuan Dist., Taichung City 42083, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Jiatai Electronic Business Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 219, Building 4, Jinzhong Lanzuan Fengjing Huayuan, Jinlong Second Road, Longgang Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province 518100, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
fitness equipment
Community design No 002305979-0001 · EUIPO Community design register · disclosed 2013-09-10
Wonder Core Smart fitness product marketed by Bodyorbit Co., Ltd
Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO) 2015 booklet · Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO) · disclosed 2015-03-18
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character and for conflict with its earlier Community design rights over fitness equipment.
- ›The applicant relied on its earlier Community design registration and a TaiSPO 2015 booklet showing the Wonder Core Smart product; the holder filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the TaiSPO booklet sufficiently proved prior public disclosure and held the contested design identical apart from omission of the product name.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested RCD lacked novelty, so the Division did not examine the remaining invalidity grounds.
Deciding panel
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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