Invalidity · first instance · 2020-09-28
000109941
Contested design: 006649075-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder’s costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 006649075-0001 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
Sorin Sirbu
Romania (RO)
Str. Sfintii Apostoli nr 137, 200501, Craiova Romania
Holder · RCD owner
Wang Yunwei
China (CN)
Xiahe,Tongshan Village, Dalonghua Town,Fengshun County, Guangdong Province 518000, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Jessie Leung
Prior art cited (1)
scooter
RCD No 002687988-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2015-04-27
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD No 002687988-0001 and also invoked conflict with that earlier design right under Article 25(1)(d).
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD but found the compared scooter designs differed in several visible features, producing a different overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The Article 25(1)(d) ground also failed because the invoked prior design had been made available before, not after, the contested RCD filing date; the application was therefore rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
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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