Invalidity · first instance · 2022-02-17
000116667
Contested design: 008465264-0010
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 350 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008465264-0010 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
In-trading Handelsgesellschaft mbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Kurhausstr. 48, 23795 Bad Segeberg, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
TOPINCN LLC
United States (US)
1201 Orange Street, Suit 600 Wilmington, New Castle, United States of America
Represented by
Dimitris Morides
Prior art cited (1)
AYNEFY Fitness Rowing Machine for home use
ASIN B08KXXP942 · amazon.de · disclosed 2020-10-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested rowing-machine design lacked novelty and individual character because identical designs had been publicly available before filing.
- ›Applicant relied on an Amazon.de product listing for an AYNEFY rowing machine first offered on 9 October 2020.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing as sufficient disclosure and found the designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design was declared invalid for lack of individual character.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| 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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