Invalidity · first instance · 2019-09-13
000106202
Contested design: 005887213-0001
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
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 005887213-0001 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
Société Bicvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
14, rue Jeanne d’Asnières, 92110 Clichy, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ningbo Epene Moulded Manufacturing Company, Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Building N.6, N.26 Beihai Road, Beilun, Ningbo 315800, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
writing pen
Chinese design patent No 201 330 454 639.3 · China · disclosed 2014-02-26
catalogue distributed at the 2017 Frankfurt Paperworld fair showing the same pen
Paperworld catalogue · Frankfurt Paperworld fair · disclosed 2017-01-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Chinese design patent and a 2017 Paperworld catalogue disclosure of the same pen.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply and left the invalidity allegations undefended.
- ›The Division found the Chinese design patent publication and the trade-fair catalogue sufficiently proved prior disclosure under Article 7 CDR before the contested filing date.
- ›It found no material differences between the pens, held the designs identical, and declared the contested RCD invalid for lack of novelty.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
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