Invalidity · first instance · 2024-10-28
000126164
Contested design: 001456859-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 001456859-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Li Zhuvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Rm. 101, Bldg. A, Xinmusheng Low Carbon Ind. Park, No. 6 Xinmu Ave., Xinmu Community, Pinghu St., Longgang Dist., Shenzhen China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
ZBT International Trading GmbH
Germany (DE)
Halstenbeker Weg 98C, 25462 Rellingen, Germany
Prior art cited (1)
electric oral hygiene apparatus
CN 303162141 S · Chinese design patent publication · disclosed 2015-04-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested electric oral hygiene apparatus lacked novelty or at least individual character over an earlier Chinese design patent published before filing.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure, the comparison, or the applicant's assessment of the designer's freedom.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of Chinese design patent CN 303162141 S under Article 7 and treated the designer's freedom as at least average.
- ›It found the designs identical in shape, with only color differences that did not alter the overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld; the contested design was declared invalid and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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| 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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