Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-06
000126376
Contested design: 008192603-0001
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 008192603-0001 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
MRKK ApSvia PDF extraction
Denmark (DK)
Risskov, Denmark
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
electric candle
Instagram / candled.co.uk / Spring Fair Birmingham
Eldanacele 3D Wick Flameless Candle
Amazon ASIN B 08H GVG DQF · Amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2020-09-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on electric-candle disclosures D1 and D2 said to predate the contested design.
- ›The holder disputed disclosure and argued the contested design had distinctive top treatment, proportions, and bottom features, with a high-attention informed user focusing on visible details.
- ›The Division rejected D1 as insufficiently proven, accepted D2 as disclosed on Amazon before filing, and found D3 and D4 inadmissible because they were raised too late.
- ›Comparing the contested design only with D2, the Division found the upper-part treatment and proportions created a different overall impression, so novelty and individual-character attacks failed.
- ›The invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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