Invalidity · first instance · 2025-12-16
000130204
Contested design: 006565883-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 720 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 006565883-0004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 720.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €720
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
P. J. Tekstil Sp. z o. o.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Mierzyn, Poland
Represented by
Bartłomiej Henryk Tomaszewski
Holder · RCD owner
Wittchen S.A.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Czosnów, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
suitcase
Chinese design patent No 305006095 · WIPO database · disclosed 2019-01-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying among other things on an earlier Chinese design publication for a suitcase.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the earlier Chinese design had been made available to the public before the filing date and that the contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested EU design was declared invalid; novelty did not need to be examined further.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
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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