Invalidity · first instance · 2021-08-12
000114623
Contested design: 007271127-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 007271127-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Kevin Riedelvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Capitaine-De-Ligny-Strasse 7b, 78224 Singen, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xin Huang
China (CN)
No. 1, Xixiangcuo, Block C, Dongcuo New Gully, Meidong Village, Xianqiao, Rongcheng District, Jieyang, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China
Prior art cited (1)
ice scraper offered on Amazon
ASIN B01KU5ND4Y · Amazon.de · disclosed 2016-08-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over an earlier ice scraper offered on Amazon under ASIN B01KU5ND4Y since 23/08/2016.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing and review images as sufficient internet disclosure and found the designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design was declared invalid in full, with costs against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
Decision files
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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