Invalidity · first instance · 2024-08-19
000125583
Contested design: 009090566-0001
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 0090905660001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Wei Wangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Fuhai Information Port Xinhe Community Fuhai Street Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Michele Carella
Holder · RCD owner
Jianzhou Xu
China (CN)
No. 5, Liuheng Lane, Weixi, Senior Management District, Jinghai Town, Huilai County, Guangdong Province, China
Represented by
Dimitris Morides
Prior art cited (1)
strings of lights
RCD No 0088102530001 · Community design Register · disclosed 2022-01-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying mainly on earlier RCD No 0088102530001 for light strings.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure, designer freedom, or the comparison of the designs.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD had been disclosed by publication before the filing date and that disclosure was unrebutted.
- ›Given the high designer freedom, the battery-box differences did not alter the overall impression; the application was upheld and the contested design invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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