Invalidity · first instance · 2022-08-24
000117738
Contested design: 008776306-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 350.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0087763060004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Thomas Wamberg
Denmark (DK)
Tuemosevej 1, 4850 Stubbekøbing, Denmark
Holder · RCD owner
vanDockumGROUP v/Charlotte van Dockum Davidsen
Denmark (DK)
Bymidten 39, 1E, 3500 Værløse, Denmark
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
brochure image of an acoustic panel with slats
AKUSTIK MAGASIN · Treetops A/S, Denmark
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested acoustic panel design lacked novelty and individual character because similar slatted panels had long been marketed, including in the 2020 AKUSTIK MAGASIN brochure.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted the brochure as prior disclosure under Article 7 and compared the brochure image with the contested line drawings from the perspective of the informed user.
- ›Given broad design freedom and the strong similarity in form and configuration, the Division found no different overall impression and declared the design invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
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