European Patent Office

T 1713/11 du 12.12.2012

Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T171311.20121212
Date de la décision
12 décembre 2012
Numéro de l'affaire
T 1713/11
Requête en révision de
-
Numéro de la demande
03721127.3
Classe de la CIB
A63C 17/01
Langue de la procédure
Anglais
Distribution
Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
Téléchargement
Décision en anglais
Versions JO
Aucun lien JO trouvé
Autres décisions pour cet affaire
-
Résumés pour cette décision
-
Titre de la demande
Skateboard with direction-caster
Nom du demandeur
Razor USA LLC
Nom de l'opposant
JD Components Co., Ltd
STAMM Sport & Freizeit GmbH
Chambre
3.2.04
Sommaire
-
Mots-clés
Admissibility of the interventions (yes)
Oral submissions by accompanying person (allowed)
Feasibility and/or added subject-matter - main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 17 - requirements not fulfilled
Auxiliary request 18 - admissibility (yes) - inventive step (no)
Reimbursement of the appeal fee (no)
Exergue
1. Intervention is conceived as a procedurally exceptional situation which is justified only by a substantial legitimate interest of the presumed infringer to enter the opposition proceedings. On deciding admissibility of an intervention it is preferable to concentrate on whether the action of the proprietor reaches the level sufficient to establish a substantive legitimate interest to intervene (reasons 2.2 and 2.6).
2. As long as a patent proprietor or any other party entitled to do so initiates proceedings meant to establish whether a third party is commercially active in an area that falls within the patent proprietors right to exclude, such proceedings are "proceedings for infringement" in the sense of Article 105.

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The appeal is dismissed

2. The request for reimbursement of the appeal fee is refused.