Invalidity · first instance · 2025-03-25
000127455
Contested design: 015022917-0001
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 015022917-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Hsi Wen Changvia PDF extraction
Taiwan (TW)
3F., No. 148, Sec. 2, Minquan E. Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City 14425, Taiwan
Represented by
Daniel Dimov
Holder · RCD owner
Affargo Ltdvia PDF extraction
United Kingdom (GB)
27, Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
Hedgehog ball
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BRN9YV6Q?th=1 · Amazon.de · disclosed 2023-01-04
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty, relying in particular on D1 and arguing earlier identical or same-impression designs were publicly available before the filing date.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations, so the invalidity application was undefended.
- ›The Division found the Amazon.de screenshot sufficient to prove disclosure of D1 under Article 7 before the contested design's filing date.
- ›Comparing D1 with the contested design, the Division held any differences were immaterial, found no novelty under Article 5, and invalidated the RCD in full.
Deciding panel
- MemberNatascha GALPERIN
- MemberAlvaro SESMA MERINO
- MemberWolfgang SCHRAMEK
Decision files
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