Invalidity · first instance · 2025-01-17
000127135
Contested design: 015023928-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015023928-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Andrés Sebastián Delfino Estebanvia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 2, 50, 46015 Valencia, Spain
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Xinning Xiaoqing Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
No. 14, Yuanyi North Road, Jinshi Town, Xinning County, Shaoyang, Hunan 422000, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Żuradzki
Prior art cited (1)
UltraFire rechargeable battery shown in a YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com · YouTube · disclosed 2019-10-15
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested rechargeable-battery design lacked novelty and individual character because earlier identical or highly similar battery designs had been disclosed online before filing.
- ›The applicant relied in particular on YouTube screenshots showing an UltraFire battery in a video uploaded on 15 October 2019 and also referred to Amazon disclosures.
- ›The holder filed no observations despite being invited, so the case proceeded undefended on the merits.
- ›The Invalidity Division found the YouTube disclosure proven, considered battery shape largely standardised, and held that minor differences in wording and blue shade did not alter the overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) CDR.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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| 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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