4.5.6 New requests filed – no exceptional circumstances established
In T 2610/16 the board found that the amendment at issue should have been filed at a much earlier stage in the proceedings and concluded that the restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which had only been put in place the preceding March, did not amount to exceptional circumstances within the meaning of Art. 13(2) RPBA 2020. Similarly T 2703/16 and T 1483/16.