Key legal question
Whether the provisions on one-time fees under §§ 1-6 GTzWG could be challenged in this appeal
Extracted holding
No; those provisions were not applied in the contested decision, which concerned only the annual patent fee.
Extracted reasoning
The object of the appeal was limited by the March 16, 1999 order to the annual fee under §§ 7 ff. GTzWG. Since no one-time fee was levied, the provisions on one-time fees were irrelevant to the case.