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Contested design 004745974-0002

Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-05-13

R1959/2018-3

Contested design: 004745974-0002

CDRAppellant: applicant

Outcome

Appeal dismissed

1. The appeal is dismissed. 2. The request for reimbursement of the appeal fee is rejected.

Show verbatim operative text(de)

1. Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen. 2. Der Antrag auf Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr wird zurückgewiesen.

CostsNot specified

Parties

Applicant · invalidity challenger

HOECHSTMASS Balzer GmbHvia PDF extraction

Germany (DE)

Wiesenstraße 13, 65843 Sulzbach, Deutschland

Holder · RCD owner

No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.

Legal grounds invoked

Article 36(1)(c)Article 41

Argument summary

  • Appellant (design applicant) argued that rendering artefacts in the published views of its 3D design (GGM 4745974-0002) were caused by a defective EUIPO algorithm and requested correction of the published representations and reimbursement of the appeal fee.
  • No opposing private party; the appeal is ex parte against the examiner's refusal of the correction request.
  • The Board found that the published views were identical to the views selected and submitted by the applicant; the EUIPO viewer tool is merely a utility and the applicant was free to upload views generated by other software.
  • The appeal was dismissed as unfounded; no reimbursement of the appeal fee was warranted.

Deciding panel

  • ChairTh. M. Margellos
  • RapporteurE. Fink
  • MemberG. Humphreys
  • RegistrarH. Dijkema

Decision files

LanguageTypeSource link
enEnglish (en)machine translatedDownload original from EUIPO ↗
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