Invalidity · first instance · 2018-03-29
000010620
Contested design: 002901355-0015
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 350.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 002901355-0015 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Songmics International GmbH
Germany (DE)
Grünenplatzstr. 16-18, 42899 Remscheid, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Julia Yu
United Kingdom (GB)
156 Bon Accord Street, Scotland Aberdeen City AB11 6TX, United Kingdom
Prior art cited (1)
modular storage cabinets
Model No LPC34Q · www.amazon.de · disclosed 2014-10-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on an Amazon Germany disclosure of its earlier modular storage cabinet design from October 2014.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure of the prior design.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as a public disclosure under Article 7, rejected the novelty ground, but found the differences too minor to create a different overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested RCD lacked individual character and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 350 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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