Invalidity · first instance · 2020-07-16
000111161
Contested design: 006315289-0007
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder is ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 0063152890007 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Riching Brother Int´l Trading Limitedvia PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
Flat/RM 704, 7/F Bright Way Tower, 33 Mong Kok Road, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, special administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yanhong Pengvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
2/F, No.11, Chaoyin Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Peoples Republic of China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (1)
bag
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0796QDSHB · Amazon.de · disclosed 2018-03-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over prior design D1, an Amazon-listed bag disclosed before the RCD filing date.
- ›Holder filed no observations and did not contest disclosure or the applicant’s comparison.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as sufficient disclosure under Article 7 and found high design freedom for backpacks.
- ›Because the two bags created the same overall impression on the informed user, the RCD lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
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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