5.8.3 Illness of representative

In T 1032/96, the board held that the late transfer of the case to the representative owing to the illness of a colleague was not sufficient justification for the failure to submit the set of claims until just three days before the date of the oral proceedings.

In T 336/11 in view of these exceptional circumstances the board admitted the new objections of the opponent's new representative into the proceedings which were filed late due to the representative's severe illness and death.