(1) Sections 41 to 44 and 47 to 49 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply accordingly to the exclusion of and objection to court personnel.
(2) Any person shall also be excluded from exercising the office of judge who was involved in the preceding proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
(3) That board of whom the judge objected to is a member shall decide on the objection to that judge. If the number of board members ceases to constitute a quorum on account of the member objected to, another Board of Appeal shall take the decision.
(4) The board in whose sphere of business the matter falls shall decide on the objection to a registry clerk.