Invalidity · first instance · 2025-04-03
000125956
Contested design: 009049430-0001
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 009049430-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Gregory Frankenvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Hillewalser Str. 110, 32052, Herford, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yaping Yu
China (CN)
Zhaixi village, Jiangnan Town, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310000, China
Represented by
Andrea Albert Catala
Prior art cited (1)
polishing brush offered on Amazon.de
ASIN B01M68NIN5 · Amazon.de · disclosed 2016-10-23
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested polishing-brush design was not new and lacked individual character over a near-identical wire brush disclosed online in October 2016.
- ›The applicant relied on an Amazon.de listing showing a polishing brush with ASIN B01M68NIN5 available since 23 October 2016; the holder filed no observations.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon listing as sufficient disclosure under Article 7 and found the informed user would perceive the designs as producing the same overall impression.
- ›Because the shared cup shape, central hole and symmetrically attached braided wires dominated, the minor hole-pattern and colour differences did not confer individual character.
- ›The application was upheld, the contested design was declared invalid, and the holder was ordered to bear the costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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