Other appeal · Board of Appeal · 2024-08-27
R0615/2023-3
Contested design: 009192768-0002
Outcome
The Board takes note of the amended views, annuls the contested decision, and remits the case to the examiner for further prosecution of the registration procedure.
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1. Takes note of the amended views No 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 for Community design No 9 192 768-0002, and the amended views No 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 for Community design No 9 192 768-0003. 2. Annuls the contested decision. 3. Remits the case to the examiner for further prosecution of the registration procedure.
CostsNo costs order
Parties
Applicant · invalidity challenger
Digital distillery LLCvia PDF extraction
United States (US)
1419 Murray Drive, 64116 North Kansas City, United States
Represented by
Holder · RCD owner
No opposing holder — Other appeal · Board of Appeal.
Legal grounds invoked
Argument summary
- ›The applicant appealed the partial refusal of designs No 9 192 768-0002 and -0003, arguing that an Office IT error prevented its representatives from accessing the file and curing the representation deficiencies in time.
- ›No opposing private party was involved; this was an ex parte appeal against the examiner's refusal decision in a multiple application.
- ›The Board found the initial deficiency notice had been formally sent, but accepted that a technical incident on the Office's side later blocked file access and delayed the applicant's ability to act.
- ›Using its discretion to admit the amended views and noting the priority documents were adequate, the Board annulled the refusal and remitted the registration procedure for further prosecution.
Deciding panel
- ChairS. Stürmann
- RapporteurH. Salmi
- MemberC. Negro
- RegistrarH. Dijkema
Decision files
| Language | Type | Source link |
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| deDeutsch (de) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| esespañol (es) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| frfrançais (fr) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| ititaliano (it) | machine translated | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
| enEnglish | original | Download original from EUIPO ↗ |
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