Invalidity · first instance · 2025-04-07
000127497
Contested design: 008558746-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested RCD is declared invalid, and the applicant is ordered to bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered Community design No 008558746-0001 is declared invalid. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 750.
Costs€750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dongguan Tenghao Plastic Hardware Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 102, Building 2, No. 142 Tangqing East Road, Tangxia Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Holder · RCD owner
Caifa Jiangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 3307, Building 11, Phase 4, Zhonghai International Community, Yuelu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province 410000 China
Represented by
Michele Carella
Prior art cited (1)
Amazon offer for the 'Eldnacele Flameless Flickering Candles' battery lamp
ASIN B 088 CHK L1J · Amazon · disclosed 2020-05-09
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying at least on an Amazon listing for the Eldnacele battery lamp disclosed before the filing date.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon printout as sufficient internet disclosure under Article 7(1) and found the prior lamp and contested design created the same overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was upheld and the contested design was declared invalid; the text contains an internal inconsistency on which party was ordered to bear costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
Decision files
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