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Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2018-12-10
R1926/2018-3
Contested design: 003949015-0001
CDRAppellant: holder
Outcome
Appeal inadmissible
The appeal is dismissed as inadmissible.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Dismisses the appeal as inadmissible.
CostsEach party bears its own costs
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
CROCS, INC.via PDF extraction
United States (US)
7477 East Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot Colorado 80503, United States of America
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
FLAMEshoes, s.r.o.via PDF extraction
SK
Kružlov 292, 08604 Kružlov, Slovakia
Represented by
Ivan Belička
Legal grounds invoked
Article 57Article 35Article 70
Argument summary
- ›The design holder (FLAMEshoes) filed a notice of appeal on 28 September 2018 against the Invalidity Division decision of 16 April 2018, well after the two-month deadline of 21 June 2018; no statement of grounds was received.
- ›The Board notified the holder that the appeal appeared inadmissible and invited comments; the holder did not reply.
- ›Under Article 57 CDR a notice of appeal must be filed within two months of notification of the contested decision; the holder missed this deadline and did not remedy the deficiency, so the appeal must be rejected as inadmissible under Article 35(1) CDIR.
- ›Since no procedural activity by the invalidity applicant occurred in the appeal, equity under Article 70(2) CDR dictates no professional representation costs are awarded; the first-instance costs decision is confirmed.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurM. Bra
- MemberG. Humphreys
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| 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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