Invalidity · first instance · 2023-09-26
000121458
Contested design: 008729487-0001
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 0087294870001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Thomas Gaischvia PDF extraction
Austria (AT)
Prarath 17, 8443 Gleinstätten, Austria
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Henan Luodike Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
No. 2516, 25th Floor, Unit 2, Building 1, No. 100 Shangdu Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province 450000, China
Represented by
Manuel de Arpe Tejero
Prior art cited (1)
VALUXE Pizzaschneider pizza cutter offered for sale on Amazon
ASIN B08 WQ2 2ZWH · Amazon · disclosed 2021-05-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character over an earlier pizza-cutter design disclosed on Amazon before the contested filing date.
- ›The applicant argued the informed user would see only insignificant differences and submitted Amazon evidence showing the earlier product was available since 19 May 2021.
- ›The holder filed no observations, so it did not rebut disclosure or contest the comparison of the designs.
- ›The Division found the Amazon printout sufficient to prove disclosure and held that the designs created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila CELISOVA
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENE
Decision files
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