Invalidity · first instance · 2020-09-30
000110401
Contested design: 006350286-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0063502860001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yang Yangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
1B302, Phase I, Qinchengda Zhengdacheng Community, Yutang Street, Guangming District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Ling Wang
Belgium (BE)
Domien Liekenslaan 6, 3140 Keerbergen, Belgium
Prior art cited (1)
earlier hexagonal children's tent design
Chinese design registration No 303729944 · WIPO Global Design Database · disclosed 2016-06-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant claimed the contested tent design lacked novelty and individual character over several earlier disclosures, emphasizing the same colours, fabrics, and overall appearance.
- ›To support disclosure, the applicant filed an extract from the WIPO Global Design Database for Chinese design registration No 303729944 published before the RCD filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations, so the Invalidity Division assessed disclosure and individual character on the applicant's evidence alone.
- ›The Division found the earlier and contested tents shared the same essential hexagonal structure, roof, fabric pattern, decoration, and colours, and that curtain differences did not change the overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR and was therefore declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVA
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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