Invalidity · first instance · 2021-08-31
000115404
Contested design: 004072171-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; the contested registered Community design is declared invalid in full, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text(es)
1. Se estima la solicitud de declaración de nulidad. 2. Se declara nulo el modelo comunitario registrado n.º 004072171-0001. 3. La titular sufrague las costas de la solicitante, cuantificadas en 750 EUR.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
La chaise longue Sasvia PDF extraction
France (FR)
2 rue de Sèze, 75009 París, Francia
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Larga Yi Hardware Industry Corp.via PDF extraction
Taiwan (TW)
n.º 149-6, LN. 120, Zhanglu Rd, Changhua City, Changhua County 50083, Taiwan (ROC)
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Earlier Lamp Bonhomme table lamp design.
Lamp Bonhomme, Ref 34-2M-005 · La chaise longue catalogs and Wayback Machine capture of www.lachiaselngue.fr · disclosed 2015-02-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on its earlier Lamp Bonhomme lamp disclosed before 28 June 2017.
- ›It filed catalog extracts, a Wayback Machine capture dated 1 February 2015, and invoices; the holder filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the catalog and website evidence as sufficient disclosure, found broad designer freedom, and excluded the lamp head shown in broken lines from the comparison.
- ›It found the remaining features created the same overall impression on the informed user, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
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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