Invalidity · first instance · 2023-05-26
000120219
Contested design: 007460894-0001
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 007460894-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yayuan Sunvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 402, Building 6, Zone C, Xiayousong Village, Longhua District, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Hefan Xu
Germany (DE)
Ottostraße 2, 61200 Wölfersheim – Berstadt, Germany
Prior art cited (1)
costume masks
Community design registration No 006879680-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-09-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying in particular on earlier Community design registration No 006879680-0002 for costume masks.
- ›The holder filed no observations and the decision records no substantive defence.
- ›The Invalidity Division found the earlier RCD had been validly disclosed before the contested filing date through publication in the Community Designs Bulletin.
- ›Given the broad design freedom and the near-identity of the key visual features, the contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user and lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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