Invalidity · first instance · 2025-05-23
000127956
Contested design: 015076355-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 015076355-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dongguan Super Electric Technology Co., Ltdvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Dongdong Xuvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, China
Prior art cited (1)
hand-held steamer
EU design No 015026961-0001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2023-07-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over its earlier registered EU design No 015026961-0001.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure, the informed user, or the design comparison.
- ›The Division found the earlier design was disclosed by Bulletin publication on 13 July 2023 and compared the designs at the same abstraction level.
- ›It held the shared overall shape and features outweighed differences in colour, transparency, clip detail, and button details, so individual character was lacking.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid in full, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
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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