Invalidity · first instance · 2020-04-21
000105559
Contested design: 005948007-0001
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 0059480070001 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
HRT vGmbHvia PDF extraction
LU
50 Rue de Muehlenbach, 2168, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Baltag Radu Impresa Individualevia PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
A. Pulega 3, 40133 Bologna, Italy
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
occlusal splints (mouthguards) offered on Amazon
ASIN B07K1G4NXB · www.amazon.de · disclosed 2018-10-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier mouthguard design disclosed on Amazon.de from 29 October 2018.
- ›Holder argued Amazon was not reliable evidence, claimed the disclosure fell within the grace period, and maintained the contested design had individual character.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon extract and reviews as reliable evidence of public disclosure by a third party, so the grace period did not apply.
- ›Comparing the disclosed features only, the Division found no clearly perceivable differences and held the contested RCD lacked novelty under Article 5 CDR.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid, and costs of EUR 750 were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FLTENBORG
Decision files
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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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