Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-03
000129422
Contested design: 009029689-0001
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay costs fixed at EUR 750.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 009029689-0001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Absina GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Buchen, Germany
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
Suizhou Shenghe Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Suizhou, Hubei, China
Represented by
Prior art cited (1)
snap hook with two textile straps
https://www.amazon.de; ASIN B 08D 3LK GX3 · Amazon · disclosed 2020-08-19
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character based on an earlier Amazon disclosure of a similar snap-hook strap product.
- ›The holder filed no observations in reply to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon printout as sufficient internet evidence of disclosure since 19/08/2020 under Article 7(1) EUDR.
- ›It found the contested design produced the same overall impression as the prior design, so it lacked individual character and was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberRebecca SANTANA DAVIES
- MemberEnrico D'ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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