Invalidity · first instance · 2025-06-23
000124855
Contested design: 008389951-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested registered EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 008389951-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Deluxehomeart ApSvia PDF extraction
Denmark (DK)
Kolding, Denmark
Represented by
Prior art cited (3)
electric candle
REUD No 007745252-0001
electric candle
https://www.mynovelty.eu/shop/brand/candled-slim-pillar-candle-s/ · Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) · disclosed 2020-12-29
electric candle
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier electric candle designs D1-D3 disclosed before the filing date and arguing some bottom features were technically dictated.
- ›The holder argued D1 had already been invalidated, lis pendens should be considered, D2 and D3 differed in size, colour and flame shape, and D3 had not been properly disclosed.
- ›The Division found D2 was validly disclosed through the archived website before the filing date and considered the informed user of electric candles against a broad degree of designer freedom.
- ›Minor differences in colour, finish, flame angle and wax recess did not change the overall impression, so the contested design lacked individual character and the application was upheld.
Deciding panel
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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