Invalidity · first instance · 2019-12-12
000104060
Contested design: 005253069-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 005253069-0002 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Framery Oy
Finland (FI)
Patamäenkatu 7, 33900 Tampere, Finland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Suzhou 3DS Engineering Procurement Construction Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Taiping Industrial Park, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou 215131, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
telephone boxes
RCD No 002393793-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2014-01-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character, arguing the contested telephone booth closely reproduced its earlier RCD's overall impression and key visual features.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD but found the shared box-like glazed configuration banal in the sector and focused on differences in the front and back framing and overall robustness.
- ›It held that the contested design creates a different overall impression on the informed user, so the invalidity application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
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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