Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-03-04
R0499/2023-3
Contested design: 008803712-0001
Outcome
The appeal is dismissed, and the design holder must bear the invalidity applicant’s costs in the invalidity and appeal proceedings.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Die Inhaberin trägt die Kosten der Antragstellerin im Nichtigkeits- und Beschwerdeverfahren.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Kontri Spółka z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnościąvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Jacka Kuronia 3, 15-569 Białystok, Polen
Represented by
Michał Jędrzejewski
Holder · RCD owner
LZQ Trading GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Charlottenstraße 61, 51149 Köln, Deutschland
Represented by
Yu Lin
Prior art cited (1)
ANGELBLISS playpen shown on Amazon.de
ASIN B086LG837P · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-07-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The design holder appealed only on disclosure, arguing that the earlier Amazon product identified by ASIN B086LG837P had not been proven to exist on the claimed publication date.
- ›The invalidity applicant filed no reply on appeal and relied on the Amazon printout submitted in the invalidity proceedings.
- ›The Board held that the Amazon.de screenshot, together with the ASIN, publication date and pre-filing customer reviews, was concrete and objective evidence that the earlier playpen design had been made available to the public before the contested filing date.
- ›Because the finding of identical overall impression was not challenged and disclosure was proven, the appeal was dismissed and the invalidity decision stood.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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