Invalidity · first instance · 2025-04-15
000127458
Contested design: 015012178-0001
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 015012178-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Turlen Holding SAvia PDF extraction
Switzerland (CH)
Rue du Jura 11, 2345 Les Breuleux Switzerland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Lijun Wuvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
7th Floor, Gongxin Derong Building, Shiyiheng Road, Hengjiangxia, Changping Town, Dongguan City, 523565 China
Represented by
Qiang Zhou
Prior art cited (1)
RM 35-01 Richard Mille watch case
DM/083216 · www.richardmille.com; www.my-watchsite.fr
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over earlier Richard Mille RM 35-01 watch-case disclosures, including D3 and 2014 website evidence.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the 2014 internet disclosures, found at least average designer freedom, and held that the many shared watch-case features dominated the overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberCarlos MATEO PEREZ
Decision files
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| 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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