Invalidity · first instance · 2022-04-27
000117008
Contested design: 008314520-0001
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 008314520-0001 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
Niko Jakovljevicvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Dr.-Bernhard-Dietrich-Str. 6a, 78224, Singen, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Meifen Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 401, Jindongli Technology Park, No.278-1, Dabutou Village, Songyuanxia Community, Guanhu Street, Longhua District, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (5)
pull bar / apparatus for developing muscles
German Amazon web page
pull bar / apparatus for developing muscles
German Amazon web page
pull bar / apparatus for developing muscles
German Amazon web page
pull bar / apparatus for developing muscles
German Amazon web page
pull bar / apparatus for developing muscles
German Amazon web page
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for bad faith, lack of novelty and lack of individual character, relying on Amazon screenshots of earlier pull bars.
- ›The decision text sets out no substantive response from the holder.
- ›The Division held that bad faith is not an invalidity ground under Article 25(1) CDR, so that part of the application was inadmissible.
- ›The Division found the Amazon evidence did not objectively prove when the alleged prior designs were made available to the public, so disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR was not established.
- ›The application was rejected as unfounded overall, and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
- 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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