Invalidity · first instance · 2024-03-06
000121238
Contested design: 003838077-0014
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 003838077-0014 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Eltor d.o.o.via PDF extraction
HR
Industrijka Ulica 18, Lovrin, Pazin 52000, Croatia
Represented by
Ines Mandekić
Holder · RCD owner
Delta Light NVvia PDF extraction
Belgium (BE)
Muizelstraat 2, 8560 Wevelgem (Moorsele), Belgium
Represented by
Prior art cited (9)
STATE POLE light
Eltor catalogues, account extracts and stock records
LINEA light
HESS catalogue
DALVIK light
HESS catalogue and website
GENUA light
HESS website extract
CUT light
ROSA email and catalogue
BEAM light
ROSA catalogue
SHADE 126 light
Fone Light Technologies catalogue
SHADE 125 light
Fone Light Technologies catalogue
DEAL light
https://www.dael.pt · dael.pt catalogue and website
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of design clarity, novelty and individual character, relying on nine earlier lighting designs and alleging the holder acted in bad faith.
- ›The holder argued the contested luminaire was clearly represented, differed from the cited designs, several disclosures were unproven, and the applicant's installed products were copies.
- ›The Division found the contested registration sufficiently clear under Article 3(a), and treated the bad-faith allegation as inadmissible because it is not an Article 25(1) invalidity ground.
- ›Most cited prior designs were not proved disclosed before 3 April 2017; only D2 and D3 were considered, and both created a different overall impression from the contested design.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected in full, and the applicant was ordered to pay the holder's fixed representation costs of EUR 400.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberCarmen SÁNCHEZ PALOMARES
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
Decision files
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| 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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