Invalidity · first instance · 2021-04-27
000113022
Contested design: 006657649-0001
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 0066576490001 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
Imagilights Bvbavia PDF extraction
Belgium (BE)
Nijverheidslaan 62C, 8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Power Beauty (Dongguan) Industrial Co.,Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
No.1, Eastern Industry Park, Shujiu Village, Changping Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Manuel de Arpe Tejero
Prior art cited (1)
table lamp
Community design No 0028761020002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2015-12-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, and also alleged bad faith, relying in particular on earlier Community design No 0028761020002.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply and left the application undefended on the merits.
- ›The Division held bad faith is not an RCD invalidity ground, accepted disclosure of the earlier design through Bulletin publication, and found the shared lamp features created the same overall impression.
- ›The application succeeded under Article 25(1)(b) with Articles 4 and 6 CDR, so the RCD was invalidated and the remaining grounds were not examined.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
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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