Invalidity · first instance · 2023-04-28
000120039
Contested design: 008868517-0002
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 008868517-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
BB Coffee Company GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Kapellenstr. 9, 82008 Unterhaching, Germany
Holder · RCD owner
Chuang-Kang Machinery Technology Co., Ltd
Taiwan (TW)
NO. 128, Yazhou Rd.,Tucheng Dist, New Taipei City 236042 Taiwan
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Facebook post disclosing and advertising coffee grinders
www.facebook.com / @Izpresso_tw · Facebook · disclosed 2020-11-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying on earlier coffee grinder disclosures predating the contested design.
- ›Applicant argued informed users closely follow coffee-sector publications, websites, social media, reviews, and exhibitions, and submitted a Facebook disclosure from 9 November 2020.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Facebook post as prior disclosure, found at least average design freedom, and held the designs produced the same overall impression apart from minor handle details.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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