Invalidity · first instance · 2025-05-28
000127957
Contested design: 015039369-0011
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0150393690011 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Novoferm tormatic GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Dortmund, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Suzhou Bimeng Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Breguła
Prior art cited (2)
first invoked prior hand-held transmitter design shown in the applicant's 2007 brochure and trade-fair materials
applicant brochure and trade-fair exhibits
second invoked prior hand-held transmitter design shown in the applicant's 2007 brochure and trade-fair materials
applicant brochure and trade-fair exhibits
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, alleging the contested remote-control design copied its earlier transmitters marketed and exhibited since 2007.
- ›It relied on a 2007 brochure, trade-fair photographs, an organiser letter, and a statutory declaration from its head of R&D.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the disclosure evidence insufficient and the organiser letter inadmissible for language reasons; the invoked designs were not objectively proven disclosed before filing.
- ›It added that the available monochrome prior-design views were not identical to the seven-view coloured contested design, so the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
- 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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