Invalidity · first instance · 2022-08-24
000117814
Contested design: 008801781-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 350.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008801781-0002 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 Wambergvia PDF extraction
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)
individual acoustic panel with parallel slats
AKUSTIK MAGASIN · Treetops A/S, Denmark
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the acoustic panel design lacked novelty and individual character because similar slatted panels had long been marketed.
- ›Applicant relied on the 2020 brochure 'AKUSTIK MAGASIN' from Treetops as prior disclosure; the holder filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the brochure as prior disclosure and found the compared panels overwhelmingly similar in contour, two-layer structure, and parallel slats.
- ›It held the contested design produced the same overall impression, lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR, invalidated the RCD, and awarded costs against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
Decision files
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