In the absence of anything that can be regarded as a statement of grounds of appeal, the lack of any substantive response to a notification of the inadmissibility of the appeal is considered as equivalent to an abandonment of a request for oral proceedings initially made in the notice of appeal (see inter alia T 1042/07, T 234/10, T 179/11, T 1012/13, T 2162/14, T 95/17, T 1293/18, T 1321/18).
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XCLR III C 4.3.1 General principle: withdrawal only by virtue of a clearly expressed intention not to proceed with the request