Invalidity · first instance · 2023-09-01
000117057
Contested design: 004541050-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 004541050-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Premiumlux Import Sp. z o.o.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Bartycka 116, 00715 Warszawa, Poland
Represented by
Katarzyna Izabela Kręźlewicz
Holder · RCD owner
Krzysztof Skiba
Poland (PL)
ul. Kozia 12/16, 43300 Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
Tango stair lighting fixture by Skoff
http://www.skoff.pl · Skoff website / Internet Archive · disclosed 2015-10-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested stair-lighting design lacked novelty and individual character over the earlier disclosed Skoff Tango lighting design and that the sensor-related features were technically driven.
- ›The holder challenged the reliability of the disclosure evidence, argued for a highly attentive informed user, and maintained that the front sensor area and rear assembly created a different overall impression.
- ›The Invalidity Division rejected restitutio in integrum because the holder showed no due care for missing the rejoinder deadline, so the late submissions were disregarded.
- ›The Division found the prior Tango design had been validly disclosed before filing and that the contested design conveyed the same overall impression despite the motion sensor difference.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
Decision files
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