Invalidity · first instance · 2022-10-06
000118306
Contested design: 008726863-0004
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008726863-0004 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Jay At Play International Hong Kong Limitedvia PDF extraction
Hong Kong (HK)
Suite 817 Houston Centre 63 Mody Road TST East, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Songhe Liu
China (CN)
Xiaozhuang, Xiaozhuang Administrative Village, Wangji Township, Taikang County, Henan Province, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (2)
shark-shaped children's sleeping bag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5zm5O7kqG0 · YouTube · disclosed 2020-07-20
Happy Nappers shark-shaped children's sleeping bag offer with customer review photos
https://www.amazon.co.uk · Amazon UK · disclosed 2020-10-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier online disclosures of a shark-shaped children's sleeping bag.
- ›The applicant submitted a YouTube video uploaded on 20 July 2020 and Amazon UK review screenshots as evidence of prior disclosure.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the prior design had been validly disclosed under Article 7(1) CDR and produced the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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