Invalidity · first instance · 2025-08-18
000128896
Contested design: 015039578-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is rejected, and the applicant must bear the holder's costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity of registered EU design No 0150395780001 is rejected. 2. The applicant bears the holder’s costs.
CostsApplicant ordered to pay costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Cmnstyle S.R.L.via PDF extraction
Romania (RO)
Brasov, Romania
Represented by
Cornel Vladimir Szatmari-Filip
Holder · RCD owner
Sc Pitikot Store Srl
Romania (RO)
Cristian, Jud Sibiu, Romania
Prior art cited (5)
remote control car by KIDS CHOICE
ASIN B0BD3NTQW1 · Amazon.com · disclosed 2022-09-05
remote control car by E T EASYTAO
ASIN B0B9G79Z49 · Amazon.com · disclosed 2022-08-12
remote control car by LSXD
ASIN B0BR4RPVS8 · Amazon.com · disclosed 2022-12-27
remote control car by Sendowtek
ASIN B0B9ZXQ1V2 · Amazon.com · disclosed 2022-08-18
alleged prior disclosure of the contested toy car via customer reviews
https://www.emag.ro · emag.ro
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant alleged bad faith and argued that the contested toy-car design lacked novelty and individual character over four earlier Amazon-listed toy-car designs and an alleged earlier emag.ro disclosure.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division treated bad faith as inadmissible, accepted D1 to D4 as prior web disclosures under Article 7(1) EUDR, and rejected the emag.ro material because the image was unusable and untranslated.
- ›Comparing the designs, the Division found the body and wheel differences gave the contested design a different overall impression and immediate non-immaterial differences, so novelty and individual character were preserved and the application was rejected.
Deciding panel
- MemberCarlos MATEO PÉREZ
- 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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