Invalidity · first instance · 2023-03-22
000119683
Contested design: 008764351-0001
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 008764351-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
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, 3 / F, Unit 3, Building 40, Pingchou II District, Jiangdong Street, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China
Represented by
Maria Iakovou Ioannidou
Prior art cited (1)
EVEHAP Replacement Plastic Blades
ASIN B07RK8KLDL · Amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2019-05-10
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that near-identical chaffcutter blades had already been marketed, including its own blades and an Amazon-listed blade, so the contested design lacked novelty and individual character.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the applicant's facts, evidence, and arguments unanswered.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing as prior disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and found the informed user would receive the same overall impression from the prior blade and the contested design.
- ›Because any possible thickness difference was minor and function-driven, the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
Decision files
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| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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