Invalidity · first instance · 2020-07-24
000110641
Contested design: 006095501-0001
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 006095501-0001 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
Wenzhou Ante Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
4th Floor No.128 Daluoshan Road, Economic & Technical Development Zone, Wenzhou, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Nalanqing E-Commerce Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Rm 102, Blk 7, Lane 1, North of Bantian Food St., Bantian St., Longgang Dist., Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Earlier disclosed hair clipper sold as part of the GK-800B / FGK-1201 grooming kit
GK-800B / FGK-1201 · Safeer Ajman Hypermarket flyer and related retail materials
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the hair clipper lacked novelty and individual character over its earlier GK-800B / FGK-1201 clipper disclosed in 2018 through sales, flyers and internet offers.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the 09/2018 Safeer flyer and supporting materials as sufficient prior disclosure and found no basis to exclude knowledge within the EU sector.
- ›The compared trimmers produced the same overall impression on the informed user, so the RCD lacked individual character and was invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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