Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-27
000122675
Contested design: 008532683-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; Registered Community design No 008532683-0001 is declared invalid.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 008532683-0001 is declared invalid.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yongkang Yunyue Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
The second room from the east, Floor 2, No. 22, Weitai Road, Zhiying Town, Yongkang City, Jinhua City, Zhejiang 321300, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Fuel Americas Incvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
1521 Concord Pike, Ste. 301, Wilmington, New Castle, US., Wilmington 19803, United States
Represented by
Xavier Przyborowski
Prior art cited (1)
golf buggy
CN 306174432 S (patent application No 202030383850.0) · CNIPA · disclosed 2020-11-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying mainly on Chinese design patent D1 published before the contested design’s filing date.
- ›Holder argued D1 should be excluded under Article 7(2) CDR because the same business circle and designer stood behind both designs, and it also pointed to several visual differences.
- ›The Division admitted late Exhibit 11 but found no reliable evidence that the holder or designer was successor in title to D1, so the Article 7(2) exception did not apply.
- ›Comparing the golf buggy designs, the Division found only minor differences and the same overall impression on the informed user; the contested RCD lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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