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Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2019-08-01
R1075/2019-3
Contested design: 006082145-0001
CDRAppellant: applicant
Outcome
Appeal upheld (reversal)
The contested decision is annulled, Community design No 6082145-0001 is admitted for registration, and repayment of the appeal fee is ordered.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die angefochtene Entscheidung wird aufgehoben. 2. Das Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster Nr. 6082145-0001 wird zur Eintragung zugelassen. 3. Die Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr wird angeordnet.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Haselmeier AGvia PDF extraction
Switzerland (CH)
Bogenstrasse 9, CH-9001 St. Gallen, Schweiz
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Article 3(a)Article 6(1)(c)Article 37(1)Article 37(2)Article 10(3)Article 10(5)Article 10(6)Article 10(8)Article 46(3)Article 37
Argument summary
- ›Applicant (appellant) appealed the Examiner's refusal of RCD No 6082145-0001 (medical instruments) on the grounds that the Examiner wrongly applied Article 10(5) CDIR (applicable only to individual applications) instead of Article 10(6) CDIR (multiple application), and that the applicant had expressly designated which designs the already-paid fees should cover (Nos 0001–0005).
- ›There was no opposing private party (ex-parte office appeal); no holder observations.
- ›The Board found the applicant's declaration unambiguous: fees were to cover designs 0001–0005; the Examiner should have rejected only design 0006 for non-payment, not design 0001. Article 10(5) CDIR was inapplicable by its express terms to multiple applications.
- ›The Board upheld the appeal, ordered registration of design 0001, and ordered repayment of the appeal fee as the refusal constituted a substantial procedural defect.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurE. Fink
- MemberA. Szanyi Felkl
- RegistrarROMERO CONRAD, Ingrid
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 ↗ |