Invalidity · first instance · 2024-02-23
000120899
Contested design: 002137190-0008
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 002137190-0008 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
DoubleEagle Industry (China) Ltd.via PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
Unit B 8/F, Henfa Commercial Building, 348-350 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
LEGO toy building element Lever 1x4
Element No 32449 'Lever 1x4'; set No 8353 'Slammer Rhino' · brickset.com; bricklink.com
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over the earlier LEGO Lever 1x4 element disclosed before the contested design filing date.
- ›Holder argued the later element had different proportions, structure, and hole arrangement that an attentive informed user would readily distinguish.
- ›The Division found the earlier design was disclosed and that the contested design merely extended the same hole pattern without changing the overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld; the contested design was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to bear the costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
Decision files
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