Invalidity · first instance · 2021-08-26
000115506
Contested design: 007496989-0001
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 007496989-0001 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
Savic NVvia PDF extraction
Belgium (BE)
Ringlaan 10, 8501 Heule, Belgium
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
China Machinery Engineering Suzhou Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 659, Jinmen Road, Gusu District Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Animal excrement collectors
Community design registration No 0052590330006 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2018-05-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying in particular on its earlier RCD for animal excrement collectors.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division held Article 25(1)(d) CDR did not apply because the earlier design had been published before the contested RCD's filing date.
- ›The earlier RCD was sufficiently disclosed, designer freedom was high, and the small differences did not change the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested RCD was declared invalid, with costs awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
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