Invalidity · first instance · 2023-03-14
000117915
Contested design: 008435754-0002
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld; Registered Community design No. 008435754-0002 is declared invalid; the holder must bear the costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Dem Antrag auf Nichtigerklärung wird stattgegeben. 2. Das eingetragene Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster Nr. 008435754-0002 wird für nichtig erklärt. 3. Die Inhaberin trägt die Kosten, die auf 750 EUR festgesetzt werden.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
DesignNest B.V.via PDF extraction
Netherlands (NL)
Keulschevaart 19, 3621 MX Breukelen, Niederlande
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Spyra GmbH
Germany (DE)
Tengstr. 34, 80796 München, Deutschland
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
water gun shown in the YouTube video "Spyra One | Next Level of Water Gun Design | Now LIVE on Kickstarter! (July 2018)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcW1iZ8x_k · YouTube · disclosed 2018-07-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying mainly on D1, a YouTube disclosure of an earlier Spyra water gun shown on 30 July 2018.
- ›The holder denied effective disclosure and argued the contested design differed in proportions, contours, surface treatment, and overall impression, also invoking functional constraints on water-gun design.
- ›The Division held the YouTube screenshots sufficiently proved public disclosure under Article 7 and found the holder had not rebutted that presumption.
- ›Comparing D1 with the contested design, the Division found the same overall impression of a massive, angular, nearly rectangular water gun and concluded the contested RCD lacked individual character.
- ›The invalidity application was upheld in full, the contested RCD was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberIvanka IVANOVA
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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