Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-21
000114683
Contested design: 007764121-0003
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must pay the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0077641210003 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
Comerado GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Chrieschwitzer Str. 56, 08525 Plauen, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Li Ping Kang
China (CN)
No.1, Fuhua Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Dimitris Morides
Prior art cited (4)
Chinese design patent for the prior insect repellent design
CN 303807126 S · Chinese design patent translation
Igreen catalogue emailed on 06/10/2016 showing a green version of the prior design
email with Igreen catalogue · disclosed 2016-10-06
Website images of the green version of the prior design
https://www.cn-igreen.com · cn-igreen.com · disclosed 2018-05-04
Haus und Garten article depicting the green version of the product
Haus und Garten · disclosed 2019-09-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on Chinese design patent CN 303807126 S and additional catalogue, website and magazine materials showing the same product.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply.
- ›The Division found that none of the submitted materials sufficiently proved prior disclosure under Article 7 CDR because the patent translation lacked publication data, the email and catalogue were unreliable, the website was inaccessible, and the article was undated.
- ›Without proven disclosure, novelty and individual character could not be assessed, so the invalidity application was rejected and the applicant was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
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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