Invalidity · first instance · 2024-01-31
000122616
Contested design: 008633283-0001
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
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008633283-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dainese S.p.A.via PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Louvigny 35, 36064 Colceresa (Vicenza), Italy
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Mingtuolang Household Products Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 502, Building 6, Dongsheng Community, Donghuan 1st Road, Longhua Street, Longhua District, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
bag shown in an Amazon offer
https://www.amazon.it (ASIN No B 07J BT6 VT5) · Amazon.it · disclosed 2019-10-29
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of individual character, relying on an Amazon listing showing a bag design offered before the contested design's 27 July 2021 filing date.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application and did not contest disclosure or the comparison of the designs.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.it printout with ASIN B 07J BT6 VT5 as sufficient evidence that the prior bag design was publicly available from 29 October 2019 under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›The Division found the compared bags close to identical and held that the contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user, so it lacked individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested RCD was declared invalid without examining the other invoked ground, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberElisabetta FERRARO
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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