Invalidity · first instance · 2020-05-08
000107461
Contested design: 005535523-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected and the applicant must pay the holder's fixed costs of EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0055355230001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Denis Lau S Yungvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Unit 17578, Cardiff [Caerdydd GB-CRD] CF11 1NB, United Kingdom
Holder · RCD owner
Changchun Xiavia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No.66, Kuocang East Road, Xiaoqu Rengcai Zhongxin, Puzhou Street 5, Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
pulse oximeter design
GB7020180060383340001 · United Kingdom design register · disclosed 2018-06-27
pulse oximeter offered on Amazon.co.uk by TOPCHANCES
ASIN B07F7XKGYJ · Amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2018-07-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity based on an earlier United Kingdom design right and on an Amazon.co.uk pulse oximeter listing, alleging conflict with a prior design right plus lack of novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division held Article 25(1)(d) could not apply because the earlier UK design had been published before, not after, the contested RCD filing date.
- ›It accepted that the Amazon listing reflected a disclosure event but found the reproduced design too poor to identify and compare under Article 7(1), so the application was rejected and costs were awarded against the applicant.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberGailė SAKALAITĖ
- MemberBirgit FILTENBORG
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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