Invalidity · first instance · 2022-04-29
000117027
Contested design: 007076039-0001
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 007076039-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
AFG Media Ltdvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Ground Floor, The Tun, 6-8 Jackson's Entry, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, EH8 BPJ United Kingdom
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Weiwei Wang
China (CN)
No.520, Group Tenth, Laowangji Village, Zhangqiao country, Zhecheng County, Henan, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (1)
Alien Inflatable Costume
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sprs3ihmFuA ; https://archive.org/web/ ; https://amazon.fr/Morph-Costumes-D%C3%A9guisement-Gonflable-%C2%AB-Alien/dp/B06XKMP9KX/ ; https://twitter.com/thismorning/status/921095632089165827 ; ASIN B06XKMP9KX · Amazon France, YouTube, Internet Archive, and This Morning/Twitter · disclosed 2017-06-08
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested inflatable toy design reproduced its earlier Alien Inflatable Costume already disclosed online and on television in 2017.
- ›Holder was invited to comment but filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the online and broadcast evidence as corroborating disclosure of the same prior costume and found the contested design identical apart from immaterial eye-shape differences.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberMichele M. BENEDETTI - ALOISI
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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