Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-15
000125336
Contested design: 015019802-0006
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 015019802-0006 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 Hllite Electric Co.,Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
CE23, Far East Industrial Park, Yuyao City – Zhejiang Prov 315400, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yingzi Wu
China (CN)
No. 4 Wulongwan, Kongguan Village, Huarong District DuanDian Town, Ezhou City, Hubei Province, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
table lamp marketed by Mexong Ltd. and reproduced in the Düsseldorf Regional Court decision
Mexong Ltd. lamp; Düsseldorf Regional Court file 14c O 75/22; https://www.ficession.com · Germany / https://www.ficession.com / Düsseldorf Regional Court · disclosed 2022-09-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on an earlier Mexong lamp disclosed before the contested design's filing date.
- ›Applicant argued the contested table lamp copied the earlier lamp and produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the Mexong lamp through website advertising and sale in Germany by at least 8 September 2022.
- ›Finding no different overall impression under Article 6 CDR, the Division upheld the application and invalidated the contested design.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| deGerman | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esSpanish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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