Invalidity · first instance · 2020-06-12
000104479
Contested design: 003056449-0001
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 0030564490001 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
ACTIVA Grillküche GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Wilhelmstraße 10, 95100 Selb, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
TARGA GmbH
Germany (DE)
Coesterweg 45, 59494 Soest, Germany
Represented by
Prior art cited (3)
grill shown in an alleged 2014 offer letter from Guangzhou Hungkay Co. Ltd.
letter from Guangzhou Hungkay Co. Ltd. (Annex 2 / 2a)
charcoal grill protected as a Chinese utility model
CN 204410600 · Chinese utility model publication · disclosed 2015-06-24
grill design allegedly published by the applicant
disclosed 2016-04-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on three earlier grill designs, including a 2014 offer, Chinese utility model D2, and an alleged self-publication.
- ›The holder denied the alleged prior disclosures, challenged D1 as unreliable, and argued D2 fell within the Article 7(2) grace period because the design originated from its predecessor in title.
- ›The Division found D2 had been published but treated it as a grace-period self-disclosure, disregarded the late translation and insufficient proof for D1, and found D3 wholly unsubstantiated.
- ›Because none of D1 to D3 qualified as prior disclosed designs capable of supporting the claims under Articles 5 and 6, the invalidity application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
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| 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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