Invalidity · first instance · 2024-04-04
000123477
Contested design: 009180383-0003
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
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 009180383-0003 is declared invalid. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Benno Klosvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Nelkenstraße 15, 85591 Vaterstetten, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shanghai Dumo Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Building 8, No. 8188, Daye Highway, Fengxian District, Shanghai, China
Represented by
Jörg Brettschneider
Prior art cited (1)
earlier German design depicted in Annex 1.1
German design No. 402 015 101 188-0031 · German Designs bulletin · disclosed 2015-12-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested design lacked novelty and individual character over several earlier disclosures, including German design D1.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found D1 had been validly disclosed through its publication in the German Designs bulletin before the contested filing date.
- ›Because the contested design was identical to D1 apart from at most immaterial colour differences, it lacked novelty and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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