Invalidity · first instance · 2024-09-09
000122894
Contested design: 008664064-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must bear costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 0086640640001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Urban Factory Ltdvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
Oceana House First Floor, 39-49 Commercial Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO15 1GA, United Kingdom
Represented by
Christel van den Reek
Holder · RCD owner
Yaoqiang Zheng
China (CN)
2-16, Xintian Village, Lidian Town, Anlu City, Hubei Province, China
Represented by
Jörg Brettschneider
Prior art cited (2)
Beaumont DF225 Boston Cocktail Shaker
ASIN B07 6MG Y9C5 · amazon.de · disclosed 2015-09-26
Beaumont DF225 Boston Cocktail Shaker
ASIN B07 6MG Y9C5 · amazon.nl · disclosed 2020-01-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, arguing the contested shaker reproduced the longstanding Boston Cocktail Shaker form.
- ›It relied on Amazon listings from 2015 and 2020 for a Beaumont Boston Cocktail Shaker and said the contested design created the same overall impression.
- ›The holder filed no observations, so the evidence of online disclosure was unrebutted.
- ›The Division found average designer freedom, only minor differences, and no different overall impression, so the design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b).
- ›The invalidity application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to pay EUR 750 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
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| 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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