Invalidity · first instance · 2025-11-27
000130022
Contested design: 015096018-0002
Outcome
The invalidity application is upheld, the contested EU design is declared invalid, and the holder must pay EUR 720 in costs.
Show verbatim operative text
1. The application for a declaration of invalidity is upheld. 2. Registered EU design No 0150960180002 is declared invalid. 3. The holder bears the costs, fixed at EUR 720.
CostsHolder ordered to pay costs of €720
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Shenzhen Saijinzhi Technology Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Baoan District, Shenzhen, China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
ChunRun Zhou
China (CN)
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Prior art cited (3)
animal repellent device
CN 305348492 S · China · disclosed 2019-09-13
animal repellent device marketed on Amazon Germany
www.amazon.de · www.amazon.de
Gardigo Solar Animal Repellent
ASIN B09 71T QWBQ · www.amazon.co.uk · disclosed 2021-07-22
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant sought invalidity for lack of novelty and individual character over a Chinese design patent and earlier Amazon marketplace disclosures for the same type of animal repellent device.
- ›The holder filed no observations and left the invalidity application undefended.
- ›The Division accepted the Amazon.co.uk evidence as a prior disclosure, identified the informed user as a purchaser familiar with animal repellent devices, and found the designer's freedom at least average.
- ›The compared designs shared the same overall shape, solar panel, circular emitter and LED arrangement, so the contested design created no different overall impression.
- ›The application was upheld under Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Article 6 EUDR, and the contested design was declared invalid.
Deciding panel
- MemberLudmila ČELIŠOVÁ
- MemberRasa BARAKAUSKIENĖ
- MemberDimitrios ANDRIANOPOULOS
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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