| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2016:J002314.20161215 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 15 December 2016 | ||||||||
| Case number: | J 0023/14 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 09736867.4 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | H02M 5/458 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | INVERTER WITH COMMUTATION CIRCUIT | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | ESAB AB | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.1.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Re-establishment of rights point in time relevant for loss of rights in case of non-payment of renewal fee all due care by the applicant (no) independent cross-checking system (no) isolated mistake within a normally satisfactory system (no) |
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Notwithstanding the wording of Article 86(1) EPC 2000 and Rule 51 EPC (in the version in force until 31 December 2016), for the sake of the protection of legitimate expectations of the users of the European patent system, the Board holds that a patent application is deemed to be withdrawn only upon expiry of the six-month grace period for paying the renewal fee with additional fee under Rule 51(2) EPC, in accordance with the jurisprudence that prevailed before decision T 1402/13. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/j140023eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021