Invalidity · first instance · 2024-08-13
000123795
Contested design: 015013461-0001
Outcome
The application for a declaration of invalidity is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered Community design No 0150134610001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Chen Yueyunvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 103, No.4 Weisheng Building, No.1 Erheng Road, West Zone, Tongda Creative Park, Hebian, Helong Street, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510000, China
Holder · RCD owner
Meirong Huang
China (CN)
1B801, Hua Huiruixi, Yongxiang Road, Bantian Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (5)
adhesive tape
RCD No 0073729410001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2019-12-12
adhesive tape
RCD No 0080393820001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2020-07-15
adhesive tape
RCD No 0085186410001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-04-30
adhesive tape
RCD No 0085959200001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-07-01
applicant's adhesive tape allegedly sold via Amazon online stores
ASIN B 08X YQ6 GZH · Amazon.de / Amazon.fr / Amazon.es / Amazon.it
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over four earlier RCDs and alleged prior sales of its own adhesive tape through Amazon.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted disclosure of RCDs D1 to D4 but rejected the Amazon purchase orders as insufficient to identify the applicant's alleged prior design with adequate precision.
- ›It found the contested adhesive tape created a different overall impression from each cited RCD and was not identical to any of them.
- ›The application was rejected under Article 25(1)(b), and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| esSpanish | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frFrench | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| itItalian | human translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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