5. Merit of request for re-establishment of rights
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5.3. Exceptional circumstances

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5.3.3 Complex transfers of company ownership

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In T 469/93 the board found that even if all due care required by the circumstances were to be exercised, the occasional error during complex transfers of company ownership could not entirely be avoided. The error in this case being an exceptional one, the causes of which were remedied, the appellant's request for re-establishment of rights was allowed.

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