Invalidity · first instance · 2022-09-23
000118098
Contested design: 007441944-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 350.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 007441944-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Taylor Wessing Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbBvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Power Beauty (Dongguan) Industrial Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
No 1, Eastern Industry Park, Shujiu Village, Changping town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China
Represented by
Manuel de Arpe Tejero
Prior art cited (1)
lamp
Community design registration No 007260344-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-12-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on at least four earlier designs including prior RCD No 007260344-0001.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the prior RCD had been validly disclosed before the filing date and that both lamp designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid in full, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 350 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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