Invalidity · first instance · 2024-01-12
000122114
Contested design: 008793137-0001
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 0087931370001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Nemo Power Tools Limitedvia PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
21/F, CMA Building 64 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Jianchang Liu
China (CN)
No.127, 60 South Avenue, Chenying Town, Wanian County, Shangrao, Jiangxi, China
Represented by
Marcella Clarke
Prior art cited (1)
vacuum suction handler
CN 306090762 S · China · disclosed 2020-10-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying in particular on Chinese design No CN 306090762 S for a vacuum suction handler published before the claimed priority date.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier Chinese design had been validly disclosed under Article 7(1) CDR and treated designer freedom as at least average.
- ›Despite minor differences in handle width, supports, holes, screws, and bottom pattern, the designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid for lack of individual character, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
Decision files
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