Invalidity · first instance · 2022-05-03
000116428
Contested design: 008499925-0005
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 008499925-0005 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Golden Concept ABvia PDF extraction
Sweden (SE)
Djäknegatan 31, 211 35 Malmö, Sweden
Represented by
Mathias Lindroth
Holder · RCD owner
Changwei LIU
China (CN)
Room 1301, Building B, Olive Oasis Home, No.5, Jingtian East Road, Futian Distirct, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Michele Carella
Prior art cited (1)
Clock bezels, Cases for watches
RCD No 008468169-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-03-25
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on its earlier RCD for a watch case published before the contested filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD through its Community Designs Bulletin publication and treated the informed user as a watch-casing user with at least average designer freedom.
- ›It found the differences minor against the strong similarities, held that the contested design created the same overall impression, and declared it invalid for lack of individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
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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