Invalidity · first instance · 2025-04-07
000127456
Contested design: 008312391-0001
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 008312391-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Leifheit AGvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Leifheitstr., 56377 Nassau, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Yuejin Wu
Germany (DE)
Mariaweiler Strasse 28-30, 52349 Duren, Germany
Prior art cited (1)
cooking utensils and garlic presses
Community design registration No 001662735-0001 · Community Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2010-02-02
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Community design for garlic presses published on 2 February 2010.
- ›The holder was invited to respond but filed no observations, so the applicant's facts and evidence went unrebutted.
- ›The Division treated publication of the earlier RCD in the Community Designs Bulletin as sufficient disclosure under Article 7 CDR.
- ›It found the designs identical in overall appearance and essential features, so the contested design lacked novelty and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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