Invalidity · first instance · 2022-07-20
000115524
Contested design: 006080222-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holders 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 0060802220001 is declared invalid. 3. The holders bear the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Guiqing Xiavia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 923, Xin’an Community Committee, Binhe Street Office, Tanghe County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Holder · RCD owner
Kandise Willson
Italy (IT)
Via Ramedello, 3, 44042 Corporeno, Italy
Prior art cited (1)
JOINFREE water shoes
ASIN B07 WRP ZV6S · Amazon.es · disclosed 2018-04-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier online disclosure of the same water-shoe design on Amazon.es before the filing date.
- ›The holders filed no observations and did not contest the alleged online disclosure.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.es printout as sufficient disclosure under Article 7 and found the prior and contested designs produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid for lack of individual character, and the holders were ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
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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