Restitutio in integrum · 2020-08-14

R0330/2020-3

Contested design: 002364844-0001

CDRRCD lapsed at decision

Outcome

Appeal dismissed

The appeal is dismissed.

Show verbatim operative text(de)

Die Beschwerde wird zurückgewiesen.

CostsNot specified

Applicant · invalidity challenger

Webasto SEvia PDF extraction

Germany (DE)

Kraillinger Straße 5, 82131 Stockdorf, Deutschland

Represented by

Holder · RCD owner

No opposing holder — Restitutio in integrum.

Article 67Article 70(1)

›Webasto SE sought restitutio in integrum (reinstatement) for lapsed RCDs Nos 2 364 844-0001 and 2 364 844-0002 after failing to pay renewal fees, attributing the lapse to a cascading IT error: a wrong country code ('EP' instead of 'EM') in the internal PatOrg database caused the external renewal agent's IPS software to reclassify the GGMs as granted European patents and automatically delete the renewal standing order.
›The Office's Main Business Division rejected the restitutio application on 9 December 2019, finding the circumstances neither unforeseeable nor extraordinary, noting failures in human data-entry correction, absence of a standardised protocol and four-eyes principle, and absence of a post-instruction renewal confirmation check.
›The Board confirmed the Office's analysis: the root cause was a human data-entry error not corrected in the internal database; the absence of a standardised correction protocol, a dual-check mechanism, and any diary/docket confirmation system each independently constituted a serious failure of due care under Article 67 CDR, precluding restitutio.
›Appeal dismissed; the first-instance decision rejecting restitutio was upheld; no costs award is mentioned in the operative part.

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