Invalidity · first instance · 2025-10-07
000129266
Contested design: 015062536-0001
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 0150625360001 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 750.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €750
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Dandan Liuvia PDF extraction
China (CN)
Tuban Town, Linxian County, Shanxi, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Breguła
Holder · RCD owner
Taiyuan Jiuchangsheng Trading Co., Ltd.
China (CN)
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Represented by
Krzysztof Żuradzki
Prior art cited (1)
handrail offered on Amazon.it
ASIN B0C4F4DQPR · Amazon.it · disclosed 2023-05-05
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant argued that the contested handrail design lacked novelty and individual character over an earlier Amazon-disclosed handrail with the same structure, brackets, rectangular profile, colour and angular ends.
- ›The holder filed no observations in response to the invalidity application.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.it printout as sufficient internet disclosure from 05/05/2023 and found the informed user would perceive the two handrail designs as producing the same overall impression.
- ›Because the contested design lacked individual character under Article 6(1)(b) EUDR, the application was upheld and the EU design declared invalid, without examining the additional Article 5 ground or other earlier designs.
Deciding panel
- MemberEnrico D’ERRICO
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
- MemberEmmanuel COLLIN
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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