Invalidity · first instance · 2022-10-06
000118320
Contested design: 008726863-0005
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; the contested RCD is declared invalid.
Show verbatim operative text
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 008726863-0005 is declared invalid.
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)
children's sleeping bag in the shape of a grey husky dog
https://youtu.be/M5N3sA3KJaA · YouTube · disclosed 2021-05-14
children's sleeping bag in the shape of a grey husky dog
ASIN B097CG4LCM · Amazon.es · disclosed 2021-06-16
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on prior online disclosures of the same children's sleeping bag design and also invoking Article 25(1)(f) CDR.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the YouTube video and Amazon listing as prior disclosures under Article 7 CDR and found the designer's freedom at least average for children's sleeping bags.
- ›Comparing the designs directly, the Division found them almost identical and held that minor colour-shade differences did not alter the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character, and the holder was ordered to bear EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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