Invalidity · first instance · 2021-04-23
000114122
Contested design: 008027908-0005
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 0080279080005 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
ShenZhen Transpet Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 1305 Building C Huihai Square Longhua, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
Represented by
David Evans
Holder · RCD owner
ChunRun Zhou
China (CN)
11102, No.1 Lvseyangang Homeland, No.9 Beisi Street, Yantian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Dimitris Morides
Prior art cited (1)
Chinese design patent for a dog bark response device, filed as application No 201730558109.1
CN 304653274 · Chinese design patent publication · disclosed 2018-05-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier Chinese design patent CN 304653274, published before the RCD filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted the Chinese patent extract and translation as sufficient disclosure evidence under Article 7 CDR.
- ›It found only minor differences between the designs and held that the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
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