Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-27
000126335
Contested design: 009087018-0001
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 009087018-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Guangzhou Naidong Info Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
2F, NO.71, Longkou W. Rd. Tianhe Dist., Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 100760, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Taisheng Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
B6601, No.3 Industrial Zone, Huangmabu Community, Hangcheng Street, Baoan District, Shenzhen city, Guangdong Province China
Represented by
Maria Ioannides
Prior art cited (1)
tyre
CN 303737949 S · China · disclosed 2016-07-06
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying principally on earlier Chinese design patent CN 303737949 S for tyres.
- ›The holder was invited to respond to the invalidity application but filed no observations.
- ›The Division treated the earlier Chinese design patent publication as disclosed and found the tyre tread patterns created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) CDR in conjunction with Articles 4(1) and 6(1)(b), and the contested design was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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