T 0858/18 du 20.05.2019
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T085818.20190520
- Date de la décision
- 20 mai 2019
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0858/18
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 10702347.5
- Classe de la CIB
- H05B 37/02
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents des chambres de recours (C)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Lighting Control System Responsive to Ambient Lighting Conditions
- Nom du demandeur
- Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Nom de l'opposant
- B.E.G. Brück Electronic GmbH
- Chambre
- 3.5.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 99(1)European Patent Convention R 50(3)European Patent Convention R 77(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 20Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1986) Art 31
- Mots-clés
- Opposition inadmissible - Statement according to Rule 76(2)(c) EPC filed after lapse of opposition period.
According a date of receipt to documents according to Rule 50(3) EPC if facsimile transmission extends beyond midnight. - Exergue
- If a facsimile transmission of a document within the meaning of Rule 50(3) EPC begins on an earlier date and extends beyond midnight to a later date, the entire document is accorded the later date as single date of receipt. There is no legal basis for according the earlier date as date of receipt to the part of the document arriving at the EPO before midnight
(see in particular point 6 and for the term "document" point 4 and for the "date of receipt" point 5 of the reasons).
Deviating from decisions T 2061/12 and T 2317/13
(see points 7.3 and 7.4 of the reasons).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The opposition is rejected as inadmissible.