Invalidity · first instance · 2025-03-31
000126961
Contested design: 015069641-0001
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 015069641-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
NPD Partnership Ltdvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Hayles Bridge Offices. 228 Mulgrave road Cheam, Surrey SM2 6JT, United Kingdom
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yimin Wang
China (CN)
No.14, Lane 9, North Wen'an Road, TuChi Village, FengXiang Street, Chenghai District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China
Represented by
Emilio Zeininger
Prior art cited (1)
Tapple board game
boardgamegeek.com · boardgamegeek.com
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicants sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on their earlier Tapple board-game design disclosed online in 2012.
- ›They argued both designs share the same round wheel, 20 buttons, central hand-marked button, and five connecting bridges.
- ›The holder obtained time extensions but filed no substantive observations, so the invalidity application was undefended on the merits.
- ›The Division accepted the boardgamegeek.com disclosure, found at least average design freedom, and held the overall impressions effectively identical for the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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