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Referrals by boards of appeal
By decision T 1007/01 dated 27 October 2004, Technical Board of Appeal 3.2.5 has referred the following point of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal under Article 112(1)(a) EPC:
(Translation)
(1) After withdrawal of the sole appeal, may the proceedings be continued for a third who intervened during the appeal proceedings?
(2) If the answer to question 1 is yes:
Is entitlement to continue the proceedings conditional on the intervener's compliance with formal requirements extending beyond the explicit criteria for an admissible intervention laid down in Article 105 EPC; in particular, does the appeal fee have to be paid?
The case is pending as G 3/04.