Invalidity · first instance · 2025-02-27
000125582
Contested design: 008810253-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, Registered Community design No 0088102530001 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 0088102530001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Wei Wangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Fuhai Information Port Xinhe Community Fuhai Street Bao’an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Michele Carella
Holder · RCD owner
Shenzhen Jiapei Industrial Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
202, Unit 14, Yantian Haile Garden, Yantian Community, Xixiang Street, Baoan District, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Dimitris Morides
Prior art cited (1)
"CMYK Pack of 2 Christmas Window Decorations", a string of lights in the shape of two five-pointed stars
ASIN B01LXTGPIJ · amazon.de · disclosed 2016-11-01
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Amazon-disclosed Christmas star light-string design.
- ›The holder disputed the sufficiency of the disclosure evidence and argued that differences in the wire winding, battery box, and market saturation created a different overall impression.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon evidence as proving disclosure by 2016-11-01, rejected the crowded-sector argument for lack of proof, and found the designer enjoyed high freedom.
- ›The Division found only minor battery-box differences and no meaningful visual distinction overall, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberCristina SENERIO LLOVET
Decision files
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