Invalidity · first instance · 2025-06-10
000127936
Contested design: 009168016-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design 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 EU design No 0091680160001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Huiliang Liangvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Breguła
Holder · RCD owner
QuanZhou ZhenSui Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China
Represented by
Jesús Eladio Sánchez Silva
Prior art cited (1)
earlier registered and published EU design for an electric blender / portable juicer bottle
EU design No 0084480470001 · European Union Designs Bulletin · disclosed 2021-06-03
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character, relying in particular on earlier published EU design No 0084480470001.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division found the earlier EU design had been validly disclosed through its Bulletin publication before the contested design's filing date.
- ›The Division considered the designs identical apart from immaterial colour-intensity differences, upheld the application, and declared the contested design invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberBenjamin VAN BAVEL
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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