Invalidity · first instance · 2022-08-18
000117916
Contested design: 006445680-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD 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 0064456800001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Eternal Market Cyprus Ltd.via PDF extraction
CY
Meteoron, 1 Avalon Resort 1, Villa No. 4, 8250 Empa, Paphos, Cyprus
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Hong Zhou
China (CN)
No. 3039, Bao’an North Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
Represented by
Marinos Cleanthous
Prior art cited (1)
AngQi Bed Wedge Pillow with removable cover
https://www.amazon.com; ASIN B082FZHF7S · Amazon · disclosed 2019-05-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Amazon disclosure of the AngQi Bed Wedge Pillow before the filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing dated 2019-05-05 as prior disclosure under Article 7 and treated internet retail evidence as sufficiently probative.
- ›It found the designs identical or almost identical in their distinctive wedge shape, with cover differences insufficient to create a different overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld in full, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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