| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T088320.20201007 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 07 October 2020 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0883/20 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 12189192.3 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G06Q30/02 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | D | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Recommendation system | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.5.01 | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds | ||||||||
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Summary of Facts and Submissions
I. The appeal is directed against the decision of the
Examining Division posted on 24 October 2019, refusing
European patent application 12189192.3.
II. The appellant filed a notice of appeal on 24 December 2019 and paid the appeal fee on the same day.
III. By communication of 8 April 2020, received by the
appellant, the Registry of the Board informed the
appellant that it appeared from the file that the
written statement of grounds of appeal had not been
filed, and that it was therefore to be expected that
the appeal would be rejected as inadmissible pursuant
to Article 108, third sentence, EPC in conjunction with
Rule 101(1) EPC. The appellant was informed that any
observations had to be filed within two months of
notification of the communication.
In the same communication, the Board stated that it
assumed, unless contradicted by the appellant in the
specified period, that the appellant's request for oral
proceedings did not apply to the issue of inadmissibility of the appeal because no grounds of
appeal had been filed in due time.
IV. No reply was received.
Reasons for the Decision
No written statement setting out the grounds of appeal
was filed within the time limit provided by
Article 108, third sentence, EPC in conjunction with
Rule 126(2) EPC. In addition, the notice of appeal does
not contain anything that could be regarded as a statement of grounds pursuant to Article 108 EPC and Rule 99(2) EPC. Therefore, the appeal has to be rejected as inadmissible (Rule 101(1) EPC).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is rejected as inadmissible.
