Invalidity · first instance · 2024-09-02
000125075
Contested design: 002089482-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0020894820001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Stiegelmeyer GmbH & Co. KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Ackerstraße 42, 32051 Herford, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Linet spol. s r.o.via PDF extraction
Czechia (CZ)
Zelevcice 5, 27401 Slany, Czechia
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
hospital bed
RCD No 009082560002 · Community design Register · disclosed 2008-04-18
hospital bed
RCD No 0011051180003 · Community design Register · disclosed 2009-04-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier RCDs D1 and D2 for hospital beds.
- ›The holder filed no timely defence, then requested restitutio in integrum, blaming missed deadline alerts during an internal system migration and alleged lack of database publication.
- ›The Division found the restitutio request admissible but unsubstantiated because the holder did not prove all due care or any Office error about design-database correspondence details.
- ›On the merits, the Division held the contested design created a different overall impression from D1 and D2 and was therefore new and had individual character.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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| esSpanish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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