Invalidity · first instance · 2025-05-23
000127715
Contested design: 015013461-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs fixed at EUR 400.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0150134610001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs, fixed at EUR 400.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs of €400
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Ediesi SLvia PDF extraction
Spain (ES)
Elda (Alicante), Spain
Represented by
Alvaro Perez Garcia
Holder · RCD owner
Meirong Huang
China (CN)
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Isabelle Bertaux
Prior art cited (3)
Adhesive tape products shown in URLs, screenshots and photos from Amazon and other online platforms.
Amazon and other online platforms
adhesive tape
EU design No 0080393820001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2020-07-15
adhesive tape
EU design No 0085186410001 · EU Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-04-30
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on internet disclosures and earlier EU designs said to show the same dividing line and opacity.
- ›Holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the URLs, screenshots and photos did not prove prior disclosure, and the identified earlier registered designs created a different overall impression on the informed user.
- ›The application was rejected in full, and the applicant was ordered to pay EUR 400 in costs.
Deciding panel
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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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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