Invalidity · first instance · 2024-04-16
000123135
Contested design: 008856033-0001
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 008856033-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lan Xiaojinvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Building 3, Phase II, Luofu Garden, Changning Town, Boluo County, Huizhou City, China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Holder · RCD owner
Changjiang Xutangrui Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Rm. 1910, Unit 1, Building 1, Jingfu Community, Hongmian West Rd., Changjiang Li Autonomous County 572799, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Breguła
Prior art cited (1)
USB chargers
RCD No 008263511-0007 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2020-11-20
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCD No 008263511-0007 and also invoked Article 25(1)(e) CDR.
- ›The holder argued the designs differed in profile, edge definition, corner shape, and plug-prong appearance, so they were neither identical nor produced the same overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier RCD through its published registration and assessed the contested design only by features shown in the black-and-white registration.
- ›The Division found the designs materially the same in shape and structure, held the contested design not new under Article 5(1)(b) CDR, and did not examine the remaining grounds.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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