Invalidity · first instance · 2021-05-25
000114242
Contested design: 006906616-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, 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 0069066160001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Banyan Licensing L.L.Cvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
1430-K West Pointe Drive Charlotte North Carolina 28214, United States of America
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xiaqian Mao
China (CN)
No. 18-4, Chaijiahu, Guangdu Village, Xiakou Town, 310000, Jiangshan City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
pillows
RCD No 0054905620002 · EUIPO Community Bulletin · disclosed 2018-07-11
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested pillow design lacked individual character over earlier RCD D1, emphasising the same core triangular, split, indented, trapezoidal shape.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found D1 had been disclosed before the filing date and that designer freedom for relief pillows was not particularly limited.
- ›It held that the similarities dominated the overall impression on the informed user, so the RCD lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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