Invalidity · first instance · 2024-06-25
000123896
Contested design: 015034299-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0150342990005 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yuyao Hilite Electric Co. LTDvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
CE23, Far East Industrial Park, Yuyao City - Zhejiang Province, 315400, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Dan Wangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 5 7, Group 1, Xinling Village, Guancun Town, Da County, Sichuan Province, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
LED lights
Community design registration No 0045550010007 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2017-12-20
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over its earlier Community design registration No 0045550010007 for LED lights.
- ›The holder was invited to respond to the invalidity application but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the earlier design had been validly disclosed before the filing date and that both lamps created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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