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Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-06-13
R0573/2019-3
Contested design: 005807179-0007
CDRAppellant: applicant
Outcome
Appeal dismissed
The appeal is dismissed.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen.
CostsNo costs order
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbRvia 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) sought recognition of a PCT patent application (filed 26.10.2017) as a valid priority basis for 12 RCD applications filed 24.10.2018, arguing a 12-month priority period applied.
- ›No opposing private party; the EUIPO examiner had rejected the priority claim as filed outside the 6-month priority period under Article 41(1) CDR.
- ›The Board held that Article 41(1) CDR exhaustively governs priority for RCD applications, permitting only design or utility model prior filings within 6 months; a PCT patent application cannot establish a 12-month priority period for designs.
- ›The appeal was dismissed; the priority rejection was confirmed and refund of the appeal fee refused.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberC. Bartos
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
|---|---|---|
| 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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