Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-11-30
R0837/2020-3
Contested design: 002745554-0002
Outcome
The contested decision is annulled, the contested registered Community design is declared invalid, and the design holder is ordered to bear the invalidity applicant’s costs in both instances.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Annuls the contested decision; 2. Declares registered Community design No 2 745 554-0002 invalid; 3. Orders the design holder to bear the costs and fees incurred by the invalidity applicant in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
ALBATROS International GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Konrad-Zuse-Str. 3, 54552 Nerdlen, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Homy Casa Limitedvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Second Booth Of No. 81, He'an Street, Xi'hua Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
chair
Amazon ASIN B075WD7D4N · amazon.de · disclosed 2012-10-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant relied mainly on an earlier chair design shown on amazon.de and argued that the contested chair lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder challenged the disclosure evidence and argued that differences in the back, the side view and the coloured edging band distinguished the contested chair from the prior designs.
- ›The Board held that prior design D1 had been validly disclosed on amazon.de and should also have been examined for individual character; the colourful edging and colour differences were only minor variations of the same L-shaped chair structure.
- ›The prior design destroyed the individual character of the contested RCD, so the decision was annulled and the RCD declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- ChairG. Humphreys
- RapporteurH. Salmi
- MemberE. Fink
- RegistrarR. Vidal
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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