T 0585/08 (Re-establishment of rights in respect of the time limit for filing the notice of appeal (no)) of 20.10.2009
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2009:T058508.20091020
- Date of decision
- 20 October 2009
- Case number
- T 0585/08
- Online on
- 6 April 2010
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 03700147.6
- IPC class
- H04N 13/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Apparatus for stereoscopic photography
- Applicant name
- Perisic, Zoran
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 108European Patent Convention Art 109European Patent Convention Art 110European Patent Convention Art 120European Patent Convention Art 122European Patent Convention R 131(4)European Patent Convention R 136(1)European Patent Convention R 136(2)EPC Revision Act of 29 November 2000Decision AC of 28 June 2001 on the transitional provisions under Article 7 of the EPC Revision Act Art 001Decision AC of 7 December 2006 amending the Implementing Regulations to the EPC 2000 Art 002European Patent Convention Art 111 1973European Patent Convention Art 119 1973European Patent Convention R 78(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Date of removal of cause of non-compliance determined (yes)
Reasoned request for re-establishment of rights in due time (no)
Duty of the EPO to warn appellant about deficiency (no)
Power of the board to examine appeal on its merits (no) - Catchword
- The principle of good faith does not impose any obligation on the EPO to scrutinize documents on file to establish whether grounds and facts with respect to a request for re-establishment of rights are missing (points 13-19 of the Reasons).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The request for re-establishment of rights is rejected.
2. The appeal is not deemed to have been filed.
3. The appeal fee is reimbursed.