Invalidity · first instance · 2021-07-19
000109221
Contested design: 002769299-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holders' costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0027692990001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holders’ costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Nextrend GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Weiherstraße 1, 65439 Flörsheim am Main, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xiamen Axent Corporation Limited.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 2 East Xiafei Rd, Haicang, Fujian, Xiamen, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
toilet lid
RCD No 0021678820002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2013-01-24
additional design excerpt submitted as a new invalidity basis
DM/0736405
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested toilet-lid design lacked individual character over earlier RCD No 0021678820002 and pointed to additional prior examples of lid shapes, openings, thicknesses, and knob positions.
- ›The holders argued that broken-line features of the earlier design should be disregarded and that the contested design differed materially in its rear recess and cover, knob arrangement, and angular front shape.
- ›The Division held that the earlier RCD was properly disclosed, but Annex 5 (DM/0736405) was an inadmissible new basis introduced too late in the proceedings.
- ›The Division found broad designer freedom apart from fitting constraints and considered the contested design longer, thinner, and materially different in its rear structure, knob presentation, and decorative side lines.
- ›The application was rejected because the contested RCD produced a different overall impression; the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- 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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