Invalidity · first instance · 2020-04-15
000107360
Contested design: 003998749-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 003998749-0001 is declared invalid. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Wograf Sp. z o.o.via PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Czołgistów 39, 94225 Łódź, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
S&G Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
5B-089, 5/F, Phase 2, HuananGuoJiFangzhiFuzhuangYuanfuliao Wuliuqu, No.1 Huanan Avenue, Pinghu Jiedao, Longgang Dist., Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
adhesive strapless brassiere
http://www.amazon.ca; ASIN B0156TOZUK · Amazon · disclosed 2015-09-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on an Amazon listing showing the earlier brassiere design before the RCD filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations and did not contest the evidence of prior disclosure or the substantive invalidity grounds.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon extract and ASIN evidence as sufficient proof that the earlier design had been made available to the public under Article 7 CDR.
- ›Given the broad design freedom and the strong visual similarities, the Division found no different overall impression on the informed user and declared the RCD invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| 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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