Invalidity · first instance · 2021-07-27
000114703
Contested design: 008175459-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay the applicant's fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008175459-0001 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
Pascal Koniecznyvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Kateriniweg 15, 63477 Maintal, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xin Huang
China (CN)
No.1 Xixiangcuo, Building C, Dongcuo Xingou, Meidong Village, Xianqiao, Rongcheng District, Jieyang 522000, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Nan Li
Prior art cited (6)
Back stretching device, back massager for bed, chair and car; multi-level lumbar support stretcher for lower and upper muscle pain relief
ASIN B07FSCCX1P · Amazon.com · disclosed 2018-07-22
Back stretching device offered by another seller incorporating the same design
ASIN B07LBTLZ8C · Amazon.de · disclosed 2018-12-13
Patent document showing the product design on which the applicant said the contested product was based
US 6 634 999 B2 · United States Patent and Trademark Office · disclosed 2001-08-28
Product on Amazon.de incorporating an identical or similar back stretching design
ASIN B085PZYFH8 · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-03-14
Product on Amazon.de incorporating an identical or similar back stretching design
ASIN B08C7KZHKS · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-07-15
Invoice for the applicant's pre-filing purchase of the product on Amazon.de
Invoice dated 28/08/2020 · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-08-28
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested back stretcher lacked individual character over earlier online disclosures, including Amazon listings and a US patent, and also invoked his own pre-filing purchase invoice.
- ›The holder filed no observations on disclosure or on the comparison between the contested design and the earlier design.
- ›The Invalidity Division accepted the Amazon evidence as sufficient proof of prior disclosure and treated the ASIN B07FSCCX1P product as made available to the public before the RCD filing date.
- ›It found the contested design produced the same overall impression as the prior design, lacked individual character under Article 6(1), and therefore had to be invalidated.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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