Invalidity · first instance · 2019-11-05
000107240
Contested design: 006039111-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicants’ costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 006039111-0001 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicants’ costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Ali Ganjavian Afshar
Spain (ES)
Calle Plátano, 14, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Changsha Jiuduo Electronic Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 1508, Xingdian Yangguangcheng East, Yuelu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
pillow
RCD 003477314-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2016-11-29
photographs from websites depicting the 'Ostrich Pillow Go'
websites
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicants sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character and for conflict with their earlier RCD 003477314-0001.
- ›They relied on the earlier registered design and website photographs of the Ostrich Pillow Go; the holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD through its 29 November 2016 bulletin publication but rejected the website photographs as insufficiently proven.
- ›It found the designs created the same overall impression on the informed user despite minor surface differences, so the contested RCD lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
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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