Invalidity · first instance · 2023-03-21
000119719
Contested design: 008721823-0001
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
The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. Registered Community design No 0087218230001 is declared invalid. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
ALM Manufacturing Limitedvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Grimbald Crag Close, St James Business Park, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire HG5 8PJ, United Kingdom
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yiwu Shunge Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 305, 3rd Floor, Unit 3, Bldg. 40, Pingchou Second Dist., Jiangdong St., Yiwu, Zhejiang 322000, China
Prior art cited (1)
Spares2go Plastic Blades for Gtech
ASIN B07GWLD3Y2 · Amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2015-11-18
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested blade design lacked novelty because identical or very similar blades had already been marketed before the filing date.
- ›Applicant relied on Amazon.co.uk screenshots showing 'Spares2go Plastic Blades for Gtech' available since 18/11/2015; the holder filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon disclosure under Article 7 CDR and found the compared blades differed only in immaterial details, with colour disregarded.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design was not new under Article 5(1)(b) CDR and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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