Invalidity · first instance · 2025-04-04
000127578
Contested design: 008792840-0001
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 008792840-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CCLIFE Technic GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Barentsstraße 15, 53881 Euskirchen, Germany
Represented by
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)
pump for high-pressure liquids
https://www.amazon.de; ASIN B08JD5YSM3 · Amazon · disclosed 2020-09-17
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that an identical pump design had been disclosed on Amazon before the filing date, outside the 12-month grace period.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations on disclosure, novelty, or individual character.
- ›The Division found the Amazon listing sufficiently proved public disclosure under Article 7(1) CDR and assessed individual character first for procedural economy.
- ›It held that the designs created the same overall impression, so the contested design lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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