2.6.7 Exceptional circumstances warranting admissibility of appeal

b) Patent proprietor requests revocation

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An opponent's appeal is admissible when the written statement of grounds is based solely on the fact that the patent proprietor himself filed the request for revocation of the patent after the appeal was filed (T 459/88, OJ 1990, 425 and T 961/93).