Invalidity · first instance · 2025-06-16
000125316
Contested design: 008217608-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must pay the holder’s fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0082176080001 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
Computime Group Limitedvia PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
89 Queensway, Hong Kong
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
ENGO Controls Spółka z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnością, Spółka Komandytowavia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Radostowice, Poland
Represented by
Prior art cited (3)
'SAL91W1 Facelift' temperature control system
SALUS Technology Group product specification and SALUS brochure · disclosed 2010-01-18
original 'SAL91' temperature control system design
Computime Enterprise Ltd. product specification · disclosed 1995-03-07
temperature control system shown in a Romanian magazine advertisement
Info Construct magazine advertisement
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the thermostat design lacked novelty and individual character over D1, D2 and D3, which it said had been disclosed before the contested filing date.
- ›Holder replied that disclosure of the earlier designs was unproven and that visible differences across the screens, buttons, panels, rear view and leg preserved novelty and individual character.
- ›The Division held that only prior designs properly identified and argued in the application could be assessed, and it disregarded later material that altered the subject matter.
- ›It found D1 and D2 were supported only by applicant-origin documents and a related witness statement, while D3 was too illegible to establish its features, source or publication date.
- ›Because none of the invoked designs was proven disclosed under Article 7(1), the invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
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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