Invalidity · first instance · 2024-05-29
000123279
Contested design: 009086713-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay fixed costs of EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 009086713-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Yongjie Livia PDF extraction
China (CN)
3271, 3rd Floor, No.39, Queshan New Village, Gaofeng Community, Dalang Street, Longhua District, Shenzhen 518000, China
Represented by
Ákos Süle
Holder · RCD owner
Jure Markičvia PDF extraction
SI
Zgornja Jevnica 2, SI1281 Kresnice, Slovenia
Represented by
Jure Marn
Prior art cited (2)
automatic chicken door offered by RUN-TIGER LLC
ASIN B08WCKVGR1 · Amazon.com · disclosed 2021-02-10
chicken house door identified as 'ATRNA Porta Automatica del Pollaio'
ASIN B09NJKWJK1 · Amazon.it · disclosed 2021-12-13
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant argued the contested animal-gate design was identical or at least lacked individual character over earlier Amazon-disclosed chicken-door designs D1 and D2.
- ›Holder argued the prior designs were not properly identified or reproduced individually, that features could not be combined, and that incomplete views prevented proving identity.
- ›The Division found D1 sufficiently identified and disclosed on Amazon before the priority date, with enough evidence for comparison under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Comparing the protected shape features, the Division found the contested design produced the same overall impression as D1 on the informed user despite minor alleged differences.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 6(1)(b); D2 and the novelty ground were not examined further.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberIneta GALUBICKE
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
Decision files
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