Invalidity · first instance · 2022-09-14
000118277
Contested design: 008597744-0001
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 008597744-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
memoryking GmbH & Co. KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Päwesiner Weg 20, 13581 Berlin, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Sudaran Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
3rd Floor, No.434, East Baoshi Road, Shiyan Street, BaoAn District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province 518000, China
Represented by
Ákos Süle
Prior art cited (1)
ZWOOS 100 Stück wiederverwendbare Kabelbinder, verstellbare Kabel-Klettband, Kabelbinder mit Klettverschluss
ASIN B08 75X 9952 · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-04-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier disclosures including an Amazon listing for identical cable ties available from 16 April 2020.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.de printout and ASIN evidence as sufficient internet disclosure under Article 7 CDR before the filing date.
- ›It found the prior design and contested design identical in shape, configuration, material appearance, and colour, with any possible differences immaterial.
- ›The application was upheld on lack of novelty, the design was invalidated in full, and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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