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Contested design 002195842-0001

Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-06-18

R0236/2019-3

Contested design: 002195842-0001

CDRAppellant: applicantRCD lapsed at decision

Outcome

Appeal dismissed

The appeal is dismissed.

Show verbatim operative text(de)

Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen.

CostsNo costs order

Parties

Applicant · invalidity challenger

Markus Paleologovia PDF extraction

Germany (DE)

Brunnenstraße 4D, 89257 Illertissen-Jedesheim, Deutschland

Represented by

Michael Kirklies

Holder · RCD owner

No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.

Legal grounds invoked

Article 13(1)Article 13(3)Article 22Article 67

Argument summary

  • RCD owner Markus Paleologo appealed the Registry's confirmation that GGM No 2 195 842-0001 had lapsed with effect from 5 March 2018 due to non-payment of the renewal fee; he argued he had commissioned a third-party fee-monitoring company to effect payment and bore no personal fault.
  • No opposing private party; the Registry confirmed the lapse under Article 22 GGDV because neither a timely renewal application nor the fee was received within the statutory or grace periods.
  • The Board confirmed that lapse under Article 22 CDR operates regardless of fault; fault-based relief is available only via a restitutio in integrum application under Article 67 CDR, which the appellant had neither filed nor paid for, and which would in any event be time-barred.
  • Appeal dismissed; lapse of the RCD confirmed.

Deciding panel

  • ChairTh. M. Margellos
  • RapporteurC. Bartos
  • MemberE. Fink
  • RegistrarI. Romero Conrad

Decision files

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