Invalidity · first instance · 2024-04-08
000123357
Contested design: 015008551-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015008551-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Liu Rongpingvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 102, Building 18, Dongfangjiayuan, Dingshu Town, Yixing City 214221, China
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Hefengjiada Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
1/F, N2 Shunxing Industrial Zone, N10, Zhongxing Rd, Maantang Community, Bantian Sub-Dist, Longgang Dist, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
Corona machine ceramic tube
CN 302341605 S · China design patent publication · disclosed 2013-03-06
Examples and representations of existing ceramic discharge electrodes
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over an earlier Chinese design and argued any differences in length were minor.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier Chinese design had been validly disclosed and considered the enclosure-3 examples insufficiently proven as prior art.
- ›Comparing the designs as a whole, the Division found only minor differences in grooves and edge sharpness, producing the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
Decision files
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