Invalidity · first instance · 2026-03-10
000130974
Contested design: 015045124-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 015045124-0003 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
IP Central GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
München, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Højer Møbler A/S
Denmark (DK)
Vodskov, Denmark
Prior art cited (3)
freestanding table structure shown in the Lernräume catalogue
Issuu / Lernräume catalogue · disclosed 2020-08-31
elongated freestanding table structure shown in the Lernräume catalogue
Issuu / Lernräume catalogue · disclosed 2020-08-31
school table frame with a vertical divider panel shown in the Lernräume catalogue
Issuu / Lernräume catalogue · disclosed 2020-08-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested design had been disclosed in the holder's 2020 and 2021 catalogues and therefore lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of prior designs D1-D3 through the Issuu Lernräume catalogue dated 31/08/2020 but found Annex 1 and the undated Zap concept catalogue insufficient on their own.
- ›The Division held that the prior designs created a different overall impression because of differences in proportions, divider panels and visible structural features, so the contested design remained new and had individual character.
- ›The application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to bear the holder's costs, with no fixed representation amount stated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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