Invalidity · first instance · 2021-06-28
000114661
Contested design: 004674687-0008
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
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0046746870008 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the applicant’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Michael Heunemannvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Heinrich-Heine-Str. 16, 08491 Limbach, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Tong de Limitedvia PDF extraction
VG
Palm Grove House, P. O. Box 438, Road Town, Tortola, Virgin Islands (British)
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Lesoleil HSS Drill Bit
ASIN BO12Z3HIW2 · amazon.de · disclosed 2015-07-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Lesoleil HSS Drill Bit sold on amazon.de before the RCD filing date.
- ›The applicant relied on Amazon product-page printouts, the ASIN listing, and pre-filing customer reviews to prove prior disclosure.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as proving disclosure and found the differences in the shank details immaterial, so both designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the RCD was declared invalid for lack of individual character, and costs of EUR 750 were awarded against the holder.
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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