Invalidity · first instance · 2024-04-23
000123835
Contested design: 009183056-0001
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 009183056-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Maximilian Stückertvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Am Dürrbach 6, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Affargo LTDvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
27, Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
Prior art cited (1)
Bezox Cuticle Cutter nail clipper shown on Amazon
ASIN B07FNM63DP · www.amazon.de · disclosed 2018-07-24
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested nail-clipper design lacked novelty and individual character because the same design had already been disclosed on Amazon before the filing date.
- ›Holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as a public internet disclosure from 24 July 2018 and treated the clearer duplicate image as usable for comparison.
- ›It found the designs created the same overall impression; differences in screws versus rivets and the BEZOX mark were insignificant for individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and costs were awarded against the holder.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKĖ
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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