Invalidity · first instance · 2025-02-11
000125335
Contested design: 015042264-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 015042264-0005 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
ReMORE OYvia PDF extraction
Finland (FI)
Konttisentie 8, Vaajakoski 40800 Finland
Holder · RCD owner
Digikor Oy
Finland (FI)
Telitie 4 as. 16, Hyvinkää, 05820 Finland
Represented by
Prior art cited (9)
tent design from the Chinese patent database
CN308547891S · Chinese patent database
black sauna tent shown on a Chinese company invoice and related screenshot evidence
invoice issued by a Chinese company · disclosed 2022-09-21
"SweatTent: The portable, powerful, anywhere sauna" crowdfunding page showing a sweat tent
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sweattent-the-portable-powerful-anywhere-sauna#/ · Indiegogo · disclosed 2023-01-10
Morzh Cube tent shown in an online article and YouTube review comments
https://www.youtube.com · YouTube / morzh.eu
Overland Sauna tent product page
https://overlandsauna.com/products/overland-sauna-tent · Overland Sauna website
sauna tent shown on bastutaltarna.se
https://bastutaltarna.se/products/bastutalt-s · bastutaltarna.se
sauna tent shown on bastuspecialisten.se
https://www.bastuspecialisten.se/bastutalt-panorama-small · bastuspecialisten.se
Skylight sauna tent shown on oxsweat.com
https://oxsweat.com/products/skylight-sauna-tent · oxsweat.com
sauna tent shown on sun-ga.jp
https://sun-ga.jp/products/sp-sauna-set · sun-ga.jp
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant alleged lack of novelty, arguing that earlier sauna-tent designs had been disclosed before the contested design's 24/11/2023 filing date.
- ›The holder argued that the cited designs differed significantly from the contested design and were not even intended as sauna tents, with different materials as well.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure only for D2, D3 and D4, rejecting the remaining evidence as untranslated, undated or post-dating the filing date.
- ›It found none of the accepted prior designs identical to the contested design, so the Article 25(1)(b) novelty attack failed and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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