Invalidity · first instance · 2025-05-15
000127616
Contested design: 015068408-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design 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 EU design No 015068408-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Interglobal Trading Solutions Group SLvia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Sant Cugat del Vallés, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Xumingsheng Technology Co., LTD.
China (CN)
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Francesco Agostini
Prior art cited (2)
BallFall game copyright work
US Copyright registration No TX 9-379-498 · U.S. Copyright Office · disclosed 2024-02-28
BallFall game offered for sale on Amazon.es
ASIN B0C5RJNH12 · Amazon.es · disclosed 2023-05-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant claimed the contested design reproduced its earlier copyrighted BallFall game and relied on Spanish copyright law, a Spanish public deed, US copyright registration, and Amazon evidence of prior marketing.
- ›The holder, although invited, filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Invalidity Division found the BallFall tower configuration was an original copyright work, the applicant was entitled to invoke it, and the holder had likely been exposed to it before filing.
- ›Because the contested design reproduced the essential features of that work without authorisation, the Division upheld the application and declared the design invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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