Invalidity · first instance · 2022-09-20
000118041
Contested design: 008636526-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the order states that the applicant must bear the holder’s costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008636526-0001 is declared invalid. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
FIIISH (Société A Responsabilité Limitée)via PDF extraction
France (FR)
410 rue Robert Schuman, 29490 Guipavas, France
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Weihai hunthouse fishing tackle Co,.Ltd
China (CN)
305, youth entrepreneurship Incubation Park, Shandong University (Weihai), HIDZ, Weihai, Shandong Province 264200, China
Represented by
Qiang Zhou
Prior art cited (1)
fishing lures
RCD No 001879404-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2011-06-21
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity based on its earlier RCD, arguing lack of individual character and also alleging bad faith and lack of novelty.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not contest the application.
- ›The Division treated bad faith as inadmissible, accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD, and found the lure designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design invalidated; the costs section is internally inconsistent between the order and the reasons.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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