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 Sirbuvia PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Str. Sfintii Apostoli nr 137, 200501, Craiova Romania
Holder · RCD owner
Wang Yunweivia PDF extraction
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
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| 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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