Invalidity · first instance · 2024-11-28
000126535
Contested design: 015019802-0002
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 015019802-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Kartell S.p.A.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via delle Industrie, 1, 20082 Noviglio (MI), Italy
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 (2)
Kartell 'Battery' lamp
RCD No 002551580-0002 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2014-11-24
Article 'L'oro di Kartell' showing the Kartell 'Battery' lamp
https://living.corriere.it/arredamento/gallery/kartell-novita-2014-402004457942/ · living.corriere.it · disclosed 2014-12-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier Battery lamp disclosures including RCD No 002551580-0002 and a 2014 online article.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of the earlier design, found broad designer freedom for table lamps, and held that the contested design reproduced the prior lamp's key shapes and faceted surfaces.
- ›The contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user, so it lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberCristina SENERIO LLOVET
Decision files
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| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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