Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2020-06-15
R0433/2020-3
Contested design: 006929840-0010
Outcome
The Board annuls the examiner's decision, remits the case to the Operations Department for further prosecution, and orders reimbursement of the appeal fee.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Annuls the contested decision; 2. Remits the case to the Operations Department for further prosecution; 3. Orders that the appeal fee be reimbursed.
CostsNot specified
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Unclebus Textile Co., Ltd.via PDF extraction
China (CN)
Room 1207, Floor 11, No. 12 Building, No. 3 Yard HuangChangNanLi, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100121, People's Republic of China
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›Applicant (Unclebus Textile) appealed an examiner's decision that changed the filing date of RCDs 6929840-0001 to 0010 from 26 September 2019 to 29 October 2019, resulting in loss of priority rights for designs 0001–0007.
- ›The applicant argued the original filing date should be maintained because the deficiency (shoe pad in fifth view) was cured by a timely proposal to delete those views within the prescribed period under Article 46(3) CDR.
- ›The Board found the applicant's 20 November 2019 declaration to delete the fifth view was a clear, unambiguous correction within the prescribed period; the examiner erred by ignoring it and changing the filing date.
- ›The Board further found the examiner's failure to give the deletion option constituted a substantial procedural violation justifying fee reimbursement; filing date restored to 26 September 2019.
Deciding panel
- ChairTh. M. Margellos
- RapporteurC. Rusconi
- MemberH. Salmi
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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