Invalidity · first instance · 2025-01-30
000127158
Contested design: 015060281-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 750 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 015060281-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Flowzoom GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Bachgasse 10, 69151 Neckargemünd Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yan Liu
China (CN)
Room 1001, Unit 1, Building 4, Yuheyuan, Hejiayuan, Xihu District,, Hangzhou 310000 China
Represented by
Mon Yin Lin
Prior art cited (1)
neck cushion airplane & car travel pillow memory foam
https://www.amazon.de; ASIN B07Q72ZQGG · Amazon.de · disclosed 2019-09-02
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Amazon product listing for a travel neck pillow.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing as prior disclosure from 2 September 2019 under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›It found the compared neck pillows created the same overall impression on the informed user, given at least average designer freedom.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design was declared invalid in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberChiara BORACE
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
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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