Invalidity · first instance · 2021-12-14
000116308
Contested design: 008444699-0003
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 008444699-0003 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Haodan HUvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 401, Unit 3, Building 7, Yunshan Xiao Qu, Yunshan Street, Lanxi City, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Zhen Peng
China (CN)
Pengwan Group, Wangfan Vil., Nanxi Town, Jinzhai, Anhui, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Sławomir Krzysztof Nowicki
Prior art cited (1)
Hand Forged Meat Cleaver 6.3 Inch Kitchen Chef Knife / kitchen knife
ASIN B08GK5SN8M · amazon.com · disclosed 2020-08-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an Amazon-listed kitchen knife disclosed before the filing date.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the amazon.com listing as prior disclosure and found the compared knife designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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