Invalidity · first instance · 2024-08-27
000125255
Contested design: 015053142-0002
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 015053142-0002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Carl Freudenberg KGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Höhnerweg 2-4, 69469 Weinheim, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Mama Margaret sp. z o.o. sp.k.
Poland (PL)
Trzmiela 2, 60-185 Skórzewo, Poland
Prior art cited (1)
'vileda SPIN & CLEAN' mop head / corresponding part of mop
ASIN B082DW7B3K · www.amazon.de · disclosed 2019-12-07
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, arguing the contested mop-head part was identical to the corresponding part of the earlier vileda SPIN & CLEAN mop disclosed on Amazon in 2019.
- ›The applicant filed two Amazon.de printouts concerning the vileda SPIN & CLEAN mop, while the holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as proving public disclosure before the filing date and found the second printout showed the same product despite lacking the ASIN.
- ›It held the compared designs identical in all essential features, found the contested design lacked novelty under Article 5 CDR, upheld the application, and invalidated the RCD.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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