Invalidity · first instance · 2019-07-29
000103759
Contested design: 005510567-0002
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 005510567-0002 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
Sanico Electronics Sp. z o.o.
Poland (PL)
ul. Matuszewska 14, 03876 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Anna Rokicka
Holder · RCD owner
LLMNF Krzysztof Stefaniakvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Bobrzyńskiego 19/48, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
earlier horse-shaped night-light design with white body and purple details
WANGS WORLD e-catalogue, page 1102 · Hong Kong Lighting Fair / WANG’S WORLD e-catalogue · disclosed 2017-10-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity because the contested night-light design had been disclosed before filing at the Hong Kong Lighting Fair and through catalogues, emails and price offers from WANG’S WORLD.
- ›The holder argued its wife created the design, assigned rights to the holder, and that the holder itself had disclosed and sold the product from April 2016.
- ›The Division found the combined fair, email, catalogue and offer evidence proved pre-filing public disclosure, and the holder did not establish any grace-period exception.
- ›Comparing the earlier and contested horse lamp designs, the Division considered the minor differences immaterial, found no novelty, and declared the RCD invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberKelly BENNETT
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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