T 0595/11 (Underpayment of appeal fee/Lely Enterprises AG) of 27.5.2015

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T059511.20150527
Date of decision: 27 May 2015
Case number: T 0595/11
Application number: 05075618.8
IPC class: A01J 7/02
A01J 5/08
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 440 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: A method of milking a dairy animal
Applicant name: Lely Enterprises AG
Opponent name: DeLaval International AB
Board: 3.2.04
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention Art 100(a)
European Patent Convention Art 54
European Patent Convention Art 100(b)
European Patent Convention Art 111(1)
European Patent Convention Art 122
European Patent Convention Art 14(4)
European Patent Convention R 6(3)
European Patent Convention R 103
Keywords: 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
Catchwords:

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

Cited decisions:
G 0002/97
G 0001/03
J 0014/94
T 0642/12
T 1021/12
Citing decisions:
J 0010/20
T 1037/11
T 2554/11
T 0707/12
T 2422/18

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