Invalidity · first instance · 2021-11-10
000114281
Contested design: 004748051-0041
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested Community design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Dem Antrag auf Nichtigerklärung wird stattgegeben. 2. Das eingetragene Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster Nr. 0047480510041 wird für nichtig erklärt. 3. Die Inhaberin trägt die Kosten, die auf 750 EUR festgesetzt werden.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Briloner Leuchten GmbH & Co. KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Im Kissen 2, 59929 Brilon, Deutschland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Paul Neuhaus GmbH
Germany (DE)
Olakenweg 36, 59457 Werl, Deutschland
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Trio LT lamp exhibited at the IFH trade fair in Nuremberg
www.shk-branchenportal.de · www.shk-branchenportal.de · disclosed 2016-04-01
Trio LT lamp
French design No. 20143830 · France · disclosed 2014-10-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested ceiling lamp lacked individual character over the earlier Trio LT disclosure, first shown online in April 2016 and said also to have been published as a French design in 2014.
- ›The holder maintained the design was new and distinctive, stressing differences between a ceiling lamp and wall lamp, a highly attentive informed user, and visible structural and lighting-effect differences.
- ›The Division accepted D1 as prior disclosure under Article 7(1), found at least average designer freedom, and held that the shared three-rectangle composition dominated the overall impression despite identified differences.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design produced the same overall impression as D1 and therefore lacked individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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