Invalidity · first instance · 2018-08-28
000011090
Contested design: 003770635-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 003770635-0004 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
B.K.Licht GmbH & Co. KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Herzog-Johann-Str. 4 a, 81245 München, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Aukey E-Business Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 102, Building 9, Huanan Avenue No. 1, Huanan City International Printing Paper Packaging Logistics Zone (a), Pinghu Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
José Izquierdo Faces
Prior art cited (4)
FLI wall light No 212921
Lichtsortiment Fli 2013/2014, page 34, article No 212921 · FLI GmbH catalogue
FLI GmbH 1-flamming 212921 wall light
www.amazon.de · Amazon Germany · disclosed 2014-07-07
FLI Wall Light 1-Bulb 212921 of FLI GmbH
www.amazon.co.uk · Amazon UK · disclosed 2015-04-01
FLI Applique murale à 1 ampoule 212921 of FLI GmbH
www.amazon.fr · Amazon France · disclosed 2015-05-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and at least lack of individual character over an earlier FLI wall light disclosed in a 2013/2014 catalogue and Amazon listings.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the catalogue and Amazon printouts sufficient to prove prior disclosure and considered the compared wall-light designs to create the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character and the RCD was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberIngeborg MENDIETA VETTER
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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