Invalidity · first instance · 2024-08-29
000125400
Contested design: 015012608-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld; the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 350 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0150126080001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 350.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €350
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Lac SRLvia PDF extraction
Italy (IT)
Via Luigi carluccio 13, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Holder · RCD owner
Affargo LTDvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
27, Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX United Kingdom
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
BEAKEY Triangolo Powder Puff
https://www.amazon.it (product identification No B0BRK9NHJW) · Amazon.it
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, arguing the powder puff design had been disclosed on Amazon.it more than one year before filing.
- ›The holder, although invited to respond, filed no observations or evidence contesting disclosure or novelty.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon screenshots as sufficient internet disclosure evidence and found the prior design publicly available before the filing date.
- ›Comparing the shapes, ribbon placement, surface, and colour, the Division found the designs identical and the contested design not new.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
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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