Invalidity · first instance · 2025-02-19
000127198
Contested design: 009040397-0001
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 009040397-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
West & East GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Vahrenwalder Str. 213, 30165 Hannover Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Jiahe Linvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
No. 1, Shengongkeng East,, Houzhai Town, Nanao County, Guangdong 515900 China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
KAM2.0 set of 2 trousers hangers space saving with hooks and extendable clothes racks made of stainless steel with firm non-slip coating
https://www.amazon.de; ASIN B 08H 8KJ 29Y · Amazon.de · disclosed 2020-08-31
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued the contested clothes-hanger design lacked novelty and individual character because a nearly identical hanger had been sold internationally for years.
- ›To support invalidity, the applicant filed an Amazon.de listing showing the earlier hanger design, ASIN B 08H 8KJ 29Y, available from 31 August 2020.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing as sufficient internet disclosure and found the common features dominated the minor differences between the designs.
- ›The contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user, so it lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
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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