Invalidity · first instance · 2021-01-27
000111881
Contested design: 004886018-0004
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 0048860180004 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
Taizhou Huangyan Huiling Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
No 78 Lianping Road, Chengjiang Street, Huangyan District, Taizhou city (Zhejiang Province) 318020, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
YongKang Sinotech Import & Export., LTD
China (CN)
No.350 tanghis industry, YongKang 321300, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
tricycle
CN 303168457 · China · disclosed 2015-04-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity based on a previously published Chinese design patent for a tricycle, arguing lack of novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted prior disclosure of CN 303168457 and found the scooter designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld; the contested RCD was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberJessica LEWIS
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
Decision files
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