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Invalidity appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-05-13
R0280/2024-3
Contested design: 002416248-0003
CDRAppellant: applicant
Outcome
Appeal inadmissible
The Board declares that the appeal is deemed not to have been filed and orders reimbursement of the appeal fee.
Show verbatim operative text
1. Declares that the appeal is deemed not to have been filed; 2. Orders the reimbursement of the appeal fee.
CostsNo costs order
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
WIND-DAM Filip Piórowskivia PDF extraction
Poland (PL)
ul. Bartosza Wojciecha Głowackiego, nr 2, lok. 4, 82200 Malbork, Poland
Holder · RCD owner
Ergosafe Aktiebolagvia PDF extraction
Sweden (SE)
Reparatörgatan 1, 302 62 Halmstad, Sweden
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Legal grounds invoked
Article 25(1)(b)Article 4(1)Article 5(1)(b)Article 6(1)(b)Article 8(1)Article 8(2)Article 57Article 35(1)Article 35(3)Article 67(2)Article 67(3)Article 7(1)
Argument summary
- ›The invalidity applicant appealed the rejection of its invalidity application and argued it had sent an appeal on 23 December 2023; it also relied on a 22 December 2023 bank transfer.
- ›The design holder filed no observations in the appeal proceedings.
- ›The Board held that the notice of appeal reached the Office only on 5 February 2024 and the fee was credited on 6 February 2024, after the 3 January 2024 deadline.
- ›It found the December transfer irrelevant because it went to an obsolete Office account, and any possible restitutio request would also fail for non-payment of the restitutio fee.
- ›The appeal was therefore deemed not to have been filed, the appeal fee was reimbursed, and no separate appeal-costs order was made.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurH. Salmi
- MemberC. Bartos
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
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| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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