Invalidity · first instance · 2025-08-18
000128826
Contested design: 009150980-0001
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 0091509800001 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
W&P EverPrime UG (haftungsbeschränkt)via PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Köln, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Lireder Industrial Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (4)
Befestigungsvorrichtungen für Fahrradzubehör
German design No 4020182000230001 · Germany · disclosed 2018-08-14
Befestigungsvorrichtungen für Fahrradzubehör
German design No 4020182000230002 · Germany · disclosed 2018-08-14
Befestigungsvorrichtungen für Fahrradzubehör
German design No 4020182000230003 · Germany · disclosed 2018-08-14
Befestigungsvorrichtungen für Fahrradzubehör
German design No 4020182000230004 · Germany · disclosed 2018-08-14
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested vehicle decorative fitting lacks novelty and individual character over four earlier German designs, and that key visible and structural features are essentially identical.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of D1 to D4 but found the contested design's visible top surface and base configuration create a different overall impression from each cited design.
- ›Because the differences are immediately perceptible, the design also remains new; the invalidity application was rejected in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| 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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