Invalidity · first instance · 2024-12-03
000126035
Contested design: 015025412-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015025412-0004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Ningbo Ucome Lighting Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 3, Shaojiadu, Zhushan Village, Lizhou Street, Yuyao City, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315400 China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yuyao Vchalux Electric Co., Ltd
China (CN)
No.99 Zhushan Economic Zone, Lizhou Street, Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315400 China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
table lamp
RCD No 015007349-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2023-01-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over earlier RCD No 015007349-0001, arguing the lamps share the same basic shape, proportions, and essential features.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier RCD was properly disclosed before the contested design’s priority date through its publication in the Community Designs Bulletin.
- ›Given the designer’s broad freedom for lamps, the identified differences were minor and did not alter the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
Decision files
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