Invalidity · first instance · 2022-04-06
000116829
Contested design: 008182273-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008182273-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Nintendo of Europe GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Goldstreinstrasse 235, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Tu Xing
China (CN)
5B, Unit 2, Block 17, Area 15, Taoyuanju, Qianjin 2nd Rd., Baoan Dist., Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
controllers
RCD No 003764570-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-08-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD No 003764570-0001, published before the contested design's filing date.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD was validly disclosed and that the designer of game controllers had at least average freedom.
- ›Because the designs shared the same overall shape and closely matching button layout, the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENE
Decision files
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| 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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