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 SA
Switzerland (CH)
Rue du Jura 11, 2345 Les Breuleux Switzerland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Lijun Wu
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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