Invalidity · first instance · 2020-10-01
000110123
Contested design: 006079547-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid in full, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0060795470001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Resafe SpAvia PDF extraction
CL
Calle Lo Gamboa 251, bodega 2, Quilpue, Chile
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Wuxi Fangqian Plastic Working Glove Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
9/F, A3 Bldg., No.777, West Jianzhu Rd., Binhu Dist., Wuxi, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (5)
Element or addition for protecting the fingers of safety gloves
EP2850957A1 · disclosed 2015-03-25
Same invention as EP2850957A1 for protecting the fingers of safety gloves
US2014/0304879A1 · disclosed 2014-10-16
protective glove
US2010/0071114A1 · disclosed 2010-03-25
protective glove
US2011/0041225A1 · disclosed 2011-02-24
protective glove
JP2009062649 · disclosed 2009-03-26
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character and argued the fingertip covering was technically dictated and invisible as a component of a complex product.
- ›The applicant relied on five earlier patent publications, chiefly EP2850957A1 and the corresponding US2014/0304879A1 disclosure.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations.
- ›The Division rejected the Article 4(2) argument as unsubstantiated, found the earlier patent design disclosed, and held the contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR, so further examination of Article 8(1) and Article 5(1)(b) was unnecessary.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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