Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-16
000129369
Contested design: 015008387-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested 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 0150083870003 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Guangdong Xin Qian Chao Information Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Dongguan Hongze Outdoor Products Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China
Prior art cited (1)
air mattresses
EU design No 0150045870001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2022-12-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier disclosures, especially prior EU design No 0150045870001 published before the contested filing date.
- ›The holder was invited to respond to the invalidity application but submitted no observations.
- ›The Invalidity Division found the earlier EU design had been validly disclosed and that both inflatable air mattress designs shared the same main visual features, with only minor differences.
- ›Given the broad design freedom for inflatable air mattresses, the identified differences were insufficient to alter the overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) EUDR and was therefore declared invalid.
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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