Invalidity · first instance · 2022-04-25
000115969
Contested design: 008425037-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested registered Community design 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 008425037-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Piotr Siwekvia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
Bysewska 30, 80298 Gdańsk, Poland
Represented by
Wojciech Gierszewski
Holder · RCD owner
Michael Sun
China (CN)
Room 709, South Tower, Baoan, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Prior art cited (1)
Hammock Hanging Chair Hit hammock hanging chair
https://archiwum.allegro.pl/oferta/hamak-relax-wiszacy-fotel-hustawka-makrama-i7253092468.html · archiwum.allegro.pl / allegro.pl · disclosed 2018-05-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicants argued the contested rocking-chair design lacked novelty and individual character over an earlier hammock hanging chair listing archived from Allegro.
- ›The holder could not be notified directly, was notified by publication, and filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the archived Allegro listing as prior internet disclosure and found the two hammock designs identical apart from an immaterial shade difference.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberMichelle Marie DELLACHERIE
Decision files
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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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