Invalidity · first instance · 2026-04-29
000131844
Contested design: 015114216-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, Registered EU design No 015114216-0001 is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 720.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 015114216-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 720.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €720
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Carl Freudenberg KG, Patente & Markenvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Weinheim, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Nanchang Wangxing Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China
Prior art cited (1)
Mops
EU design No 015042276-0001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2023-11-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on the holder's earlier EU design No 015042276-0001 for mops.
- ›The applicant relied on the earlier registration's publication on 28/11/2023; the holder was invited to respond but filed no observations.
- ›The Division found the earlier EU design had been validly disclosed before the contested filing date and before the grace period started.
- ›Because the contested and prior designs were identical, the contested design lacked novelty and was declared invalid in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
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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