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Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2021-06-22

R0365/2021-3

Contested design: 008305825-0001

Appellant: applicant

Outcome

Appeal inadmissible

The appeal is inadmissible.

Show verbatim operative text(fr)

Le recours est irrecevable.

CostsNo costs order

Parties

Applicant · invalidity challenger

Science et Médecine SCI Med SPRLvia PDF extraction

Belgium (BE)

Avenue du Printemps 22, 1410 Waterloo, Belgique

Holder · RCD owner

No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.

Legal grounds invoked

Article 57Article 35(1)Article 46(3)Article 67

Argument summary

  • The examiner rejected the design application because the filed views contained terms, letters, numbers and symbols that were not part of the design, and the applicant did not remedy the irregularity within the Office’s deadline.
  • On appeal, the applicant said it had not seen the examiner’s communication and simply filed four replacement views to correct the defect.
  • The Board held that filing new views did not constitute a statement of grounds of appeal and that appeal proceedings cannot be used to reopen the missed period for curing the application defect; no restitutio request had been filed.
  • The appeal was therefore declared inadmissible.

Deciding panel

  • ChairG. Humphreys
  • RapporteurM. Bra
  • MemberC. Negro
  • RegistrarR. Vidal

Decision files

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