Invalidity · first instance · 2021-07-12
000114602
Contested design: 006254546-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 006254546-0001 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
Plan M GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Wallstr. 3, 45468 Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xia Longvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 506, Building 7, Jiangchengshijia, Xiaogang Subdistrict, Beilun District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Ningbo, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (5)
Internet Archive excerpt showing captures of the UCARVER website home page
https://web.archive.org/web/20141101000000*/https:/www.ucarver.com/content/start/index.html · Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
UCARVER e-scooter manual/catalog showing the aluminium model scooter
UCARVER manual · disclosed 2014-09-09
Mi+ Motion Innovation magazine pages showing the UCARVER scooter
https://www.issuu.com/researchtub/docs/mi_produktfolder_datenblatt_ucarver · Issuu / Mi+ Motion Innovation · disclosed 2015-06-02
Online magazine article showing images of the UCARVER e-scooter
https://www.pressreader.com/austria/kurier-3402/20150628/282918089110581 · PressReader · disclosed 2015-06-28
Website printout depicting the UCARVER e-scooter
https://www.integrative-betriebe.at/index.php/leistungskatalog/e-bilitaet/ucarver-alu · integrative-betriebe.at
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested e-scooter RCD was very similar to the UCARVER scooter disclosed before filing and sought invalidity.
- ›Holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application or the prior-design evidence.
- ›The Division rejected Annex 1 alone as proof of design disclosure but accepted Annexes 2 to 5 as showing prior public disclosure of the aluminium UCARVER scooter.
- ›Given broad designer freedom, the compared scooters created the same overall impression on the informed user, so the RCD lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b).
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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