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Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-06-13
R0573/2019-3
Contested design: 005807179-0004
CDRAppellant: applicant
Outcome
Appeal dismissed
The appeal is dismissed.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
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CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbR; vertretungsberechtigte Gesellschaftervia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Wilhelm-Riehl-Strasse 13, D-80687 München, Deutschland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Article 41(1)
Argument summary
- ›Appellant (design applicant) claimed a 12-month priority period for its GGM application (filed 24 October 2018) based on an earlier PCT patent application (filed 26 October 2017), arguing that Article 4 Paris Convention permits a 12-month priority period from a patent application to a subsequent design application.
- ›No opposing private party; ex parte appeal against the examiner's rejection of the priority claim.
- ›The Board held that Article 41(1) GGV unambiguously limits the priority period for Community design applications to six months; a PCT application may qualify as a prior filing under that provision (treated as utility model) but cannot extend the period beyond six months; the PVÜ does not provide for a patent application to ground priority for a subsequent design application.
- ›The appeal was dismissed; reimbursement of the appeal fee was refused.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| enEnglish (en) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| deGerman | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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