Invalidity · first instance · 2025-02-03
000126235
Contested design: 015008708-0001
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 015008708-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Olsen Store GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Lise-Meitner-Str. 10, 22941 Bargteheide, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Jiabanniu Technology Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Room 609, No. 20, Youcheng East Road, Fenghuang Community, Pinghu Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Qiang Zhou
Prior art cited (1)
wine glass corresponding to the prior design
https://www.amazon.de; ASIN B08 21B XNCG · Amazon.de · disclosed 2019-11-21
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on earlier wine-glass disclosures, notably an Amazon listing available since 21 November 2019.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to either the application or the later supplementary submission.
- ›The Division admitted the supplementary Amazon screenshot as evidence tied to the originally invoked prior design and found the online offer sufficiently proved prior disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR.
- ›Comparing the designs, the Division found only a minor lettering-surface difference that did not alter the overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld because the contested design lacked individual character and the holder was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca Julia SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
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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