Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2020-04-06
R2905/2019-3
Contested design: 006657656-0001
Outcome
The Board takes note of the withdrawal of views 1.2 and 1.3; the contested decision is annulled; 16 December 2019 is established as the filing date; the case is remitted to the examiner for continuation of the registration procedure; the request for reimbursement of the appeal fee is refused.
Show verbatim operative text(de)
1. Die Kammer nimmt die Rücknahme der Abbildungen Nr. 1.2 und Nr. 1.3 zur Kenntnis. 2. Die angefochtene Entscheidung wird aufgehoben. 3. Dem GGM wird der 16. Dezember 2019 als Anmeldetag zuerkannt. 4. Die Sache wird zur Fortsetzung des Eintragungsverfahrens an den Prüfer zurückverwiesen. 5. Der Antrag auf Rückerstattung der Beschwerdegebühr wird zurückgewiesen.
CostsNo costs order
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Baden Board GmbHvia PDF extraction
Germany (DE)
Fabrikstraße 1, 76593 Gernsbach, Deutschland
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant Baden Board GmbH appealed a refusal of its Community design application No 6 657 656 on the grounds that views 1.2 and 1.3 showed different designs and were not on a neutral background; the examiner refused to recognise the application.
- ›The applicant argued in its appeal that it had communicated withdrawal of views 1.2 and 1.3 via the user-area online system on 21 August 2019 (an internal note not transmitted to the Office).
- ›The Board accepted the express withdrawal of views 1.2 and 1.3 as stated in the appeal grounds, treated the day the appeal grounds were received (16 December 2019) as the date deficiencies were remedied, and accordingly set that as the filing date.
- ›The appeal was upheld in substance; the contested refusal decision was annulled and the case remitted for registration on view 1.1 only; the appeal fee reimbursement request was refused as no procedural error by the examiner was found.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurC. Bartos
- MemberE. Fink
- 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 ↗ |