Invalidity · first instance · 2022-04-27
000117030
Contested design: 008644918-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0086449180001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yueer Tanvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Rm. 1412, Bldg. 1, Qinghu Mingquan, Longhua Dist., Shenzhen 518000 People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Hua Hang Yun Supply Chain (Hongkong) Co., Limitedvia PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
Room 605, 6/F, Fa Yuen Commercial Building, 7577 Fa Yuen Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hongkong Hong Kong
Represented by
Ákos Süle
Prior art cited (4)
bicycle bag
CN 303137839 S · Chinese Industrial Property Office · disclosed 2015-03-25
bicycle bag
CN 302246841 S · Chinese Industrial Property Office · disclosed 2012-12-26
bicycle bag
CN 302246840 S · Chinese Industrial Property Office · disclosed 2012-12-26
bike bags
RCD No 0021685910016 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2013-02-21
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over three earlier Chinese design registrations and one earlier RCD for bicycle bags.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted disclosure of D1 to D4 but found the shared portal-shaped configuration banal and gave more weight to differing bag shape, pockets, zips, cords, straps, and stitching.
- ›Because those differences changed the overall impression and were not immaterial, the contested design had individual character and novelty over each prior design.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in representation costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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