Invalidity · first instance · 2021-01-28
000113161
Contested design: 007979158-0001
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 0079791580001 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
Terraboost Media, LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
3109 Gran Avenue, 300, Miami, Florida 33133, United States of America
Represented by
Lodewij Pessers
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Kerchan Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
4F, Building A, Shuangjinhui Industrial City, Heping Community, Fuyong Street, Baoan District, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
combination dispenser and advertising display
US design patent No US D604 974 S · United States design patent publication · disclosed 2009-12-01
combination dispenser and advertising display
US design patent No US D670 113 S · United States design patent publication
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over earlier US design patents covering a combined dispenser and advertising display.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply and did not contest disclosure, the prior art, or the alleged similarity.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of US design patent D604 974 S published before the filing date and assessed both designs in the same product sector.
- ›It found the differences, including the antenna, rear details, dispenser shape, and hole placement, too minor to alter the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was invalidated in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
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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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