T 0595/11 (Underpayment of appeal fee/Lely Enterprises AG) vom 27.05.2015
- Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
- ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T059511.20150527
- Datum der Entscheidung
- 27. Mai 2015
- Aktenzeichen
- T 0595/11
- Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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- Anmeldenummer
- 05075618.8
- Verfahrenssprache
- Englisch
- Verteilung
- An die Kammervorsitzenden verteilt (C)
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- Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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- Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
- A method of milking a dairy animal
- Name des Antragstellers
- Lely Enterprises AG
- Name des Einsprechenden
- DeLaval International AB
- Kammer
- 3.2.04
- Leitsatz
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- Relevante Rechtsnormen
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 122European Patent Convention Art 14(4)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention R 103European Patent Convention R 6(3)
- Schlagwörter
- Recognition of legitimate expectations (yes)
Appeal deemed to have been filed and admissible (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - claim 1 of the main request (yes)
Novelty - claim 1 of the main request (yes)
Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution - Orientierungssatz
- 1. When deciding on the possible consequences of the Office's failure to meet its obligation to check a fee payment, the merely conjectural possibility of a real, but otherwise in itself not necessarily decisive setback (here the non-occurrence of an immediate success) for a party is more preferable than a certain decisive loss of all rights for another party, in particular when for a long time none of the parties expected the latter, see Reasons 1.13
2. Fee payment is not an issue of admissibility of the appeal, but rather a precondition for the very existence of the appeal, i.e. its deemed filing, see Reasons 1.15
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the department of the first instance for further prosecution.