Invalidity · first instance · 2024-07-16
000124437
Contested design: 015043301-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
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1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0150433010001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Guangzhou Weijia Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 301, Workshop J, No. 567, East Rd., Cheng’ao Ave., Aotou Town, Conghua Dist., Guangzhou 510940, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Lovio Marketing Management Limited
United Kingdom (GB)
Flat 43 Perkins House, Wallwood Street, London E14 7AH, United Kingdom
Represented by
Berk Gokhan
Prior art cited (1)
Protective Caps for Chair Legs offered by the Cocolemon store on www.amazon.de
ASIN B 0BZ CT6 75J · www.amazon.de · disclosed 2023-03-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested floor-protector design lacked novelty and individual character because a nearly identical product had been disclosed earlier on Amazon.
- ›The applicant relied on an Amazon.de printout showing Protective Caps for Chair Legs with ASIN B 0BZ CT6 75J available since 23/03/2023.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the online retail evidence sufficient, held the designs created the same overall impression on the informed user, and found no meaningful distinction beyond felt colour.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design was declared invalid for lack of individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| 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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