Invalidity · first instance · 2022-02-02
000114841
Contested design: 005666690-0006
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 0056666900006 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
2 Original BVBAvia PDF extraction
Belgium (BE)
Eksterstraat 1, 2360 Oud-Turnhout, Belgium
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Grimm’s GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Ostring 1, 73269 Hochdorf, Germany
Represented by
Elena Grecu
Prior art cited (2)
Archived screenshot of the holder's website showing the rainbow toy
http://www.grimms.eu · Archive.org · disclosed 2015-03-14
Amazon page for the holder's 12-Piece Rainbow Stacker with customer comments and images
Amazon · disclosed 2016-04-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity because the holder had already disclosed the same 12-piece rainbow toy before 28/09/2017, outside the one-year grace period.
- ›The holder objected to untranslated exhibits and argued the archive.org and Amazon screenshots were unreliable and did not prove a disclosure known in the EU market.
- ›The Division accepted D1 and D2 as complementary internet evidence, found the product publicly available at least since 2015, and rejected the translation and manipulation objections.
- ›The prior and contested designs were identical, so novelty was destroyed under Article 5(1)(b) CDR; the application was upheld and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberJessica N. LEWIS
- MemberCarmen SÁNCHEZ PALOMARES
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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