Invalidity · first instance · 2022-03-04
000116106
Contested design: 008486054-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008486054-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yang Chenvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 302, Building A, Wenpu Garden, No.181 Haifu Road, Haicang District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province 361000, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Nian Chen
China (CN)
Room 2402, No.2, Hujin Third Street, Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Ákos Süle
Prior art cited (1)
Amazon offer for a flippy ring chain fidget bicycle chain toy
ASIN B08WYGLFH9 / https://www.amazon.de · Amazon.de · disclosed 2021-02-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier Amazon-disclosed fidget chain designs.
- ›The applicant relied in particular on Amazon evidence showing a product with ASIN B08WYGLFH9 offered since 19 February 2021.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and found the earlier design identical to the contested design.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked novelty, so the Division did not examine the individual-character ground further.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI-ALOISI
- MemberREBECCA SANTANA DAVIES
Decision files
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