Invalidity · first instance · 2022-01-05
000116447
Contested design: 008587489-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear 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 008587489-0001 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
premano GmbH & Co. KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Lerchenstr. 41, 73655 Plüderhausen, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Guixing KE
China (CN)
No. 88, Huifeng West Road, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315000, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Marinos Cleanthous
Prior art cited (2)
Email dated 2020-09-07 showing a product identified as the "V-mandoline slicer".
Taizhou Woka Plastic Co., Ltd email · disclosed 2020-09-07
Catalogue extract depicting the "V-Blade Mandoline Slicer" prior design.
Taizhou WOKA Plastic Co., Ltd catalogue
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested vegetable slicer design lacked novelty and individual character because a similar product had been offered for sale before the filing date.
- ›To prove prior disclosure, the applicant relied on a 2020 email image and an undated catalogue extract from Taizhou WOKA Plastic Co., Ltd.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the evidence did not objectively prove when and under what circumstances the prior design was made available to the public under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Because disclosure was not proven, the invalidity grounds under Article 25(1)(b) CDR failed and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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