Decisions in 2003

All board of appeal decisions released for publication in 2003 are shown in the list below by month.

Available months in 2003

December 2003

T 0801/01 () of 25.11.2003
Online on 30.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23C 3/00	Application no. 95102817.4
Keywords: Extension of subject-matter - divisional application				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.716K)
T 0574/03 () of 22.12.2003
Online on 30.12.2003	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 22.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04B 3/48	Application no. 99933922.9
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.507K)
T 0582/00 () of 3.12.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 3.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 19/00	Application no. 93918853.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.095K)
T 0940/00 () of 4.11.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 4.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D04H 1/56	Application no. 93102167.9
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments - yes Novelty and inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.806K)
T 0025/01 (Finasteride/MERCK) of 16.9.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 16.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07J 73/00	Application no. 93203163.6
Keywords: Main request, first and second auxiliary request: extension of the protection conferred (yes) Third auxiliary request: Claim 1 - novelty and inventive step (yes); Claim 2 - sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Remittal to the first instance for adapting the description (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.656K)
T 0142/01 () of 22.9.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 22.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/56	Application no. 93108509.6
Keywords: Lack of support in description arising out of amendments made in appeal proceedings (yes) (main and first auxiliary request) Support in description (second auxiliary request) (yes) Novelty Inventive step (yes) (second auxiliary request)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.645K)
T 0248/01 (Imidazolones/JANSSEN) of 25.11.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 233/32	Application no. 96909151.1
Keywords: Amendments (allowable) - no singling out Novelty, unity (yes) - after amendment Remittal (yes) - fresh case				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 52.103K)
T 1148/01 () of 27.11.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 27.11.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B29C 70/48	Application no. 95908288.4
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 37.342K)
T 0112/03 () of 10.12.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 10.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47L 9/28	Application no. 98946411.0
Keywords: Neuheit - nach Änderung (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.164K)
T 0521/99 (Bleaching composition/UNILEVER) of 28.8.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 28.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/39	Application no. 90202851.3
Keywords: Main request: allowable amendment (no) - added subject- matter First auxiliary request: inventive step (yes) - non obvious modification of the prior art.				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.784K)
T 0986/99 () of 27.11.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 27.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G10K 11/16	Application no. 93114133.7
Keywords: Unzulässige Erweiterung (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.898K)
W 0012/01 (Identification of bacteria/KING'S COLLEGE et al) of 29.10.2003
Online on 29.12.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 29.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Lack of unity a posteriori (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.547K)
T 0247/00 () of 28.11.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 28.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01R 33/20	Application no. 96926688.1
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.563K)
T 0356/00 (Mammary gland FIX intron construct/PPL) of 25.11.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/85	Application no. 89912273.3
Keywords: Main request - novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 50.373K)
T 0497/00 () of 21.11.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 21.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 5/145	Application no. 93114709.4
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.257K)
T 0792/01 (Inserted Indicia/PRINCETON) of 9.10.2002
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 9.10.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/262	Application no. 91919562.8
Keywords: Extension beyond content of application as filed - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.909K)
T 1048/01 (Kühlkörper) of 18.12.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 18.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 23/40	Application no. 96934338.3
Keywords: Klarheit (ja - nach Änderung der Ansprüche) Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 43.806K)
T 0891/02 (Potato starch/BASF) of 29.10.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 29.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/56	Application no. 92901887.7
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.794K)
T 0326/03 () of 11.12.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60K 15/03 B06K 15/077	Application no. 98120949.7
Keywords: Fehlende Begründung				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 15.245K)
T 0642/03 () of 3.12.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 3.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01R 33/28	Application no. 99916421.3
Keywords: Missing Statement of Grounds				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.296K)
T 0117/99 () of 18.12.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 18.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 45/06	Application no. 91901880.4
Keywords: Amended documents prima facie not allowable, refused under Rule 86(3) EPC				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 48.874K)
T 0350/99 (Antistatischer Kunststoffbehälter) of 22.10.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 22.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H05F 3/00	Application no. 95101884.5
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.857K)
T 0575/99 (Polymer capsule/UNILEVER) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 93911770.1
Keywords: Main request: inventive step (no) - claimed detergent compositions do not represent a technically meaningful alternative to prior art Auxiliary request: inventive step (yes) - non obvious alternative prior art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.065K)
W 0005/02 (RNA or protein production/LARGE SCALE BIOLOGY CORP.) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/12	Application no. -
Keywords: Lack of unity (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.670K)
W 0013/03 () of 1.12.2003
Online on 23.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 1.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65G 1/04	Application no. -
Keywords: Nichteinheitlichkeit a posteriori (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 71.253K)
T 1117/01 () of 25.11.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H03H 7/30	Application no. 98950557.3
Keywords: Claims - clarity (after amendment - yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.628K)
T 0568/02 () of 30.9.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A24B 3/18	Application no. 95930277.9
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.106K)
T 0812/02 (Microanalysis of samples on disc/REMACLE) of 12.9.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 12.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/543	Application no. 98965057.7
Keywords: Added subject-matter - no Clarity, support in the description - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.366K)
T 0358/03 () of 27.11.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 27.11.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A45D 40/12	Application no. 00410100.2
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 30.643K)
T 0449/03 () of 28.11.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 28.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 17/16	Application no. 00830774.6
Keywords: Basis of decision - opportunity to comment (no) Substantial procedural violation (yes) Remittal to first instance (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.442K)
T 0551/03 () of 26.11.2003
Online on 22.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 26.11.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A47F 7/03	Application no. 97810715.9
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Remboursement des frais (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 34.557K)
D 0002/03 () of 17.12.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 17.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.508K)
J 0015/02 () of 24.11.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 24.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23K 1/00	Application no. 99125770.0
Keywords: Application of Article 4 of the Decision of the Administration Council of 13 October 1999 as transitional provision with respect to Rule 25(2) EPC				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.845K)
T 0291/01 (Transmission apparatus/CANON) of 19.11.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 19.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/04 H04N 5/76	Application no. 88307370.2
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.915K)
T 0820/01 () of 3.12.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 3.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23P 15/28	Application no. 91910756.5
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.706K)
T 1003/01 () of 8.12.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 8.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B63G 7/06	Application no. 95120055.9
Keywords: Erklärung des beschwerdeführenden Patentinhabers, daß auf das Patent verzichtet wird und die (schon festgesetzte) mündliche Verhandlung damit entfallen kann - Rücknahme der Beschwerde (ja)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 18.360K)
T 0397/02 (Endogenous gene expression/APPLIED RESEARCH SYS) of 10.10.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/67	Application no. 91903051.0
Keywords: Late-filed documents - criteria for admission of some into proceedings Sufficiency of disclosure - main and first auxiliary requests - no Added subject-matter - second auxiliary request - yes Clarity - second auxiliary request - no Reimbursement of the appeal fee paid by the Intervener - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 54.017K)
T 0430/02 () of 12.11.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03F 7/027 G03F 7/00 C08F 2/50	Application no. 91119877.8
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - objection no longer applicable to patent as amended Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 53.340K)
T 0607/03 () of 1.12.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 1.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F04C 29/02	Application no. 97107888.6
Keywords: Basis of the decision - opportunity to comment (no) Remittal to the first instance				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.425K)
T 0650/03 () of 28.10.2003
Online on 19.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 28.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65F 3/02	Application no. 99203931.3
Keywords: Interlocutory revision				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 17.900K)
T 0695/00 (Stabilization of marine oils/F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE) of 21.5.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11B 5/00	Application no. 92923333.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes): non obvious modification of a prior art process to obtain products with improved properties				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.766K)
T 0121/01 (Circular line/MAASLAND) of 17.11.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 17.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/00	Application no. 92202244.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.799K)
T 0281/01 () of 18.11.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 18.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01F 10/08	Application no. 91310132.5
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.354K)
T 0378/01 (Transparent window antenna/PPG INDUSTRIES) of 7.10.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 7.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01Q 1/12	Application no. 93103909.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.216K)
T 1189/01 () of 18.12.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 18.12.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F23G 5/44 F23G 7/12 B65G 47/19	Application no. 95440034.7
Keywords: Usage antérieur (non pris en compte) Activité inventive (confirmée)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 40.233K)
T 0586/02 () of 2.12.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 2.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47K 5/12	Application no. 93118690.2
Keywords: Neuheit - bejaht Erfinderische Tätigkiet - bejaht				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 37.370K)
T 0707/98 () of 22.10.2003
Online on 18.12.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 22.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/08	Application no. 91307611.3
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.831K)
T 0995/00 (Television communication system/COMPLAN NETWORK) of 16.7.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/16	Application no. 90906384.4
Keywords: Admissibility of appeal (yes) Extension of protection (yes) Added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.089K)
T 1092/00 () of 9.1.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 9.1.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B21B 13/02	Application no. 93116369.5
Keywords: Inventive step - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.060K)
T 0146/01 (Numerical control system/MITSUBISHI) of 25.7.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 25.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G05B 19/418	Application no. 95114264.5
Keywords: Remittal for further prosection				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.305K)
T 1294/01 () of 10.12.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 10.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H03K 17/96	Application no. 98101517.5
Keywords: Neuheit (ja - nach Änderung) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja - nach Änderung)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 23.518K)
T 1204/02 () of 19.11.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F02D 9/10	Application no. 96105400.4
Keywords: Unzutreffende Bezugnahme auf Artikel 102(3) EPÜ im Tenor einer das angefochtene Patent widerrufenden Entscheidung der Einspruchsabteilung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - bejaht Eine europäische Patentschrift kann nicht als Stand der Technik im Sinne von Artikel 54(3),(4) EPÜ berücksichtigt werden.				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.479K)
T 1090/03 () of 21.11.2003
Online on 17.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 21.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47J 27/16	Application no. 99124762.8
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.346K)
T 0564/00 () of 25.11.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E02D 7/00 E21B 7/124	Application no. 94903730.3
Keywords: Klarheit der Ansprüche (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.080K)
T 1144/00 () of 13.11.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 13.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B23B 41/08	Application no. 93107344.9
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Änderungen - ja Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.261K)
T 0587/01 () of 5.12.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65G 47/244	Application no. 98810509.4
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 20.107K)
T 0649/01 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01V 5/10	Application no. 95302295.1
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Could-would approach				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.863K)
T 1100/01 (Truncated transmembrane PACE/GENETICS) of 6.11.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 6.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/57	Application no. 92901535.2
Keywords: Main request - added subject-matter (no) Right to be heard (yes) Procedural violation (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.055K)
T 1103/01 (Ball grid array/STMICROELECTRONICS) of 1.12.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 1.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/492	Application no. 94309423.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - after amendment Claim forming basis for the decision under appeal missing from the examination file (see Reasons, item 2)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.173K)
T 1045/02 () of 13.11.2003
Online on 16.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 13.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G08G 1/0968	Application no. 97952699.3
Keywords: Form der Beschwerde - ausreichende Begründung (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.928K)
T 0020/00 () of 17.9.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C09D 7/02	Application no. 91101390.2
Keywords: Neuheit (bejaht) - nach Ersatz einer Product-by-process Formulierung in einem Verfahrensanspruch durch reine Verfahrensmerkmale Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint) - Aufgabe und Lösung - naheliegende Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 128.587K)
T 0120/00 (Mycobacteria/COGENT) of 18.2.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 18.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12Q 1/68	Application no. 90903862.2
Keywords: Late-filed documents - admissibility (no) Priority (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.078K)
T 0305/01 () of 8.10.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22B 7/04	Application no. 92905906.1
Keywords: -				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.133K)
T 0601/01 () of 5.11.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 5.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 38/44	Application no. 96917452.3
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.440K)
T 0706/01 () of 5.12.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C21D 11/00	Application no. 97250263.7
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja), Modellgestütztes Verfahren, Metallphysikalisches Prozeßmodell				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.182K)
T 0303/02 () of 19.11.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 19.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 5/00	Application no. 96110142.5
Keywords: Clarity (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.053K)
T 0453/02 () of 23.9.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B66F 9/065	Application no. 95402069.9
Keywords: Usage public antérieur Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (non) Portée de l'opposition Etendue de la compétence pour examiner l'opposition				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 61.816K)
T 0415/03 () of 3.12.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 3.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B07C 3/08	Application no. 92810781.2
Keywords: Fehlende Beschwerdebegründung				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 15.851K)
T 0557/98 () of 30.10.2003
Online on 15.12.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/00	Application no. 91912004.8
Keywords: Clarity - after amendment - yes Novelty - after amendment - in part (see points 4.4, 5.4 and 6.1) - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.269K)
T 0110/00 () of 22.10.2003
Online on 12.12.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 22.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01M 2/34 H01M 6/50	Application no. 90102273.1
Keywords: Opponent entitled party - yes Main request - added subject-matter (yes) Auxiliary request - added subject-matter (no) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.062K)
T 0514/01 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 12.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65B 9/13	Application no. 93105325.0
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) Kostenverteilung (zu Lasten des Beschwerdeführers: bestätigt				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 52.118K)
T 1115/01 () of 9.12.2003
Online on 12.12.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 9.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C25D 3/58	Application no. 95942089.4
Keywords: Klarheit - nach Änderung (ja) Ursprüngliche Offenbarung - nach Änderung (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 20.226K)
T 0295/02 () of 1.12.2003
Online on 12.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 1.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 63/81	Application no. 94105079.1
Keywords: Claims - clarity - functional features Novelty (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.289K)
T 0626/03 () of 27.11.2003
Online on 12.12.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 27.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01B 15/00	Application no. 98966209.3
Keywords: Änderungen (zulässig) Klarheit (Hauptantrag - nein) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz zur weiteren Entscheidung nach zügig durchgeführtem Beschwerdeverfahren				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.294K)
T 0708/00 (Übertragungsrahmen/ALCATEL) of 5.12.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H04J 3/16 H04J 3/06 H04L 7/00	Application no. 94401988.4
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Änderungen nach Regel 86 (4) EPÜ (bejaht) Zulässigkeit der Änderungen nach Regel 46 (1) EPÜ (bejaht) Verfahrensmangel (bejaht)				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 36.473K)
T 0708/00 (Transmission frame/ALCATEL) of 5.12.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H04J 3/16 H04J 3/06 H04L 7/00	Application no. 94401988.4
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments under Rule 86(4) EPC (yes) Admissibility of amendments under Rule 46(1) EPC (yes) Procedural violation (yes)				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.967K)
T 0708/00 (Trame de transmission/ALCATEL) of 5.12.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H04J 3/16 H04J 3/06 H04L 7/00	Application no. 94401988.4
Keywords: Recevabilité des modifications au titre de la règle 86(4) CBE (oui) Recevabilité des modifications au titre de la règle 46(1) CBE (oui) Vice de procédure (oui)				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 37.829K)
T 0708/00 (Trame de transmission /ALCATEL) of 5.12.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 5.12.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H04J 3/16 H04J 3/06 H04L 7/00	Application no. 94401988.4
Keywords: Recevabilité des modifications au titre de la règle 86(4) CBE (oui) Recevabilité des modifications au titre de la règle 46(1) CBE (oui) Vice de procédure (oui)				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 52.402K)
T 0835/01 () of 1.12.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 1.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B28B 11/04	Application no. 94830493.6
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds Reimbursement of appeal fee (rejected) Late filed evidence (not admitted) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.032K)
T 0555/02 () of 12.11.2003
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/00	Application no. 94201454.9
Keywords: Added subject-matter - main request (yes) - first auxiliary request (no) Novelty - first auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - first auxiliary request (yes) Remittal (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.812K)
T 0987/02 () of 13.11.2002
Online on 11.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 13.11.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC F27D 1/12 F27D 9/00	Application no. 95909579.5
Keywords: Novelty - main request - no Novelty and inventive step: claim 1 of auxiliary request - yes Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution Reimbursement of appeal fee - no (no substantial procedural violation)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.283K)
T 1121/02 (Electric Fencing Element) of 24.11.2003
Online on 10.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 24.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01K 3/00	Application no. 97901287.9
Keywords: Inventive step - (no) Features making no contribution to technical character cannot support the presence of an inventive step				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.490K)
T 0144/01 () of 18.11.2003
Online on 09.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 18.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 1/00	Application no. 93922298.0
Keywords: Clarity and adequate support (yes, after amendments)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.766K)
T 0007/01 () of 16.10.2003
Online on 08.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 16.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 10/00	Application no. 92870154.9
Keywords: Novelty (main request - no; auxiliary request - yes) Inventive step (auxiliary request: problem and solution - no) Claims - clarity (no) Claims - scope of protection Claims - support by description				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 56.995K)
T 0360/01 () of 21.10.2003
Online on 08.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 21.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 220/04	Application no. 93301665.1
Keywords: Main request - novelty (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 55.739K)
T 0693/01 () of 16.10.2003
Online on 08.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 16.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B21B 1/26	Application no. 94102797.1
Keywords: Inventive step (main request) no Late-filed claims (first auxiliary request) not admitted Decision re appeals - exercise of discretion (second auxiliary request) - remittal (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.794K)
T 0104/01 () of 16.9.2003
Online on 05.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 16.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D04H 1/54	Application no. 93113033.0
Keywords: Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (no) main request and auxiliary requests 1, 2A and 3A Admissibility of auxiliary requests 2 and 3 - (no) Inventive step - (yes) fourth auxiliary request				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.688K)
T 0270/01 () of 16.10.2003
Online on 05.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 16.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C23C 14/14	Application no. 95944461.3
Keywords: Klarheit (ja) Ausführbarkeit (ja) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.827K)
T 0545/01 () of 16.9.2003
Online on 05.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 16.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B66B 11/00 B66B 11/08 B66B 11/04	Application no. 94109887.3
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes - main request; no - auxiliary request) Disclosure - sufficiency (yes) Claims - clarity (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 50.873K)
T 0940/01 () of 4.11.2003
Online on 05.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16G 5/16	Application no. 99202470.3
Keywords: Inventive Step (yes, after amendment)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.452K)
T 1168/01 () of 9.10.2003
Online on 05.12.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C23C 14/02	Application no. 93906594.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 35.652K)
T 1020/00 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 04.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 63/08	Application no. 95908521.8
Keywords: Late filed requests (not admitted) Inventive step (second and third auxiliary request) - no Inventive step (fifth auxiliary request) - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 98.567K)
T 0194/01 () of 5.11.2003
Online on 04.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F23N 5/10	Application no. 96103931.0
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.204K)
T 0419/02 () of 17.9.2003
Online on 04.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 5/18	Application no. 95907451.9
Keywords: Amendments - extension of scope of protection (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 134.907K)
T 0988/02 () of 30.10.2003
Online on 04.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08K 5/092	Application no. 98936532.5
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Clarity (no) Conciseness (no) Oral proceedings in appellant's absence				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.580K)
T 0423/03 () of 10.10.2003
Online on 04.12.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 64/20	Application no. 96200706.8
Keywords: Divisional application extended beyond parent application (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.911K)
T 0134/00 (Additives and fuel compositions/EXXON) of 5.9.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 5.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10L 1/14	Application no. 93902205.9
Keywords: Novelty (main request) - no Novelty (first auxiliary request) - yes Reformulation of the technical problem - necessary: available experimental evidence not making credible the presence of an unexpected improvement for all the possible combinations of components encompassed by claim 1 Inventive step (first auxiliary request) - no: provision of an alternative: obvious to try Admissibility of an amendment (second auxiliary request) - no: superflous amendment which does not arise from any of the grounds for opposition				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.241K)
T 1106/00 () of 25.9.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 25.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 5/44	Application no. 93117507.9
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive Step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.076K)
T 0182/01 () of 23.9.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23C 5/20	Application no. 94905902.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - after amendment				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.566K)
T 0209/01 () of 14.10.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 14.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D03C 7/08	Application no. 95101459.6
Keywords: Unzulässige Erweiterung (geänderter Anspruch) - nein Ausführbarkeit - ja Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 39.001K)
T 0303/01 () of 23.10.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B23D 19/06	Application no. 93907745.9
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.222K)
T 0481/01 () of 25.8.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 25.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E05B 47/00	Application no. 95103123.6
Keywords: Neuheit (nein - Hauptantrag) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein - Hilfsantrag I)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.523K)
T 0573/01 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B41F 21/10	Application no. 95112720.8
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 22.146K)
T 0928/01 (Filtering device/PANNEVIS) of 19.9.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 19.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 33/04	Application no. 93203298.0
Keywords: Inventive step; main request - no, obvious solution of the problem; 7th auxiliary request - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.248K)
T 0077/02 () of 24.7.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 49/24	Application no. 92919702.8
Keywords: Clarity, main request, first and fourth auxiliary requests (no) Inventive Step, fifth auxiliary request (no) Late filed second and third auxiliary requests (not admitted)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.910K)
T 0220/02 () of 27.10.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 27.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F02M 37/08	Application no. 94402379.5
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Dispositif de la décision attaquée (erroné)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 44.253K)
T 0917/03 () of 26.11.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 26.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 7/04	Application no. 95929786.2
Keywords: Clarity (yes), procedural violation (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 18.571K)
T 0702/99 (Cosmetic/SHISEIDO COMPANY LIMITED) of 3.12.2003
Online on 03.12.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 3.12.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 7/48	Application no. 90310080.8
Keywords: Evidence of tests - manner of presentation - sufficient objectivity - admissible -no Feasability - yes - sufficient disclosure Novelty - yes: prior art embodiment outside the scope of the claim Inventive step - yes: technical effect not derivable from the prior art				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.401K)
T 1048/00 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 02.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 17/32 B22D 17/30	Application no. 94914187.3
Keywords: Notice of opposition considered to be filed (yes) Opposition admissible (yes) Substantial procedure violation (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.671K)
T 0006/01 (Faktor VIII/OCTAPHARMA AG) of 2.12.2003
Online on 02.12.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 2.12.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 35/16	Application no. 91901746.7
Keywords: Hauptantrag - Neuheit (nein) Hilfsantrag - Klarheit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.353K)
T 0978/01 () of 9.10.2003
Online on 02.12.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B67D 5/04 B67D 5/08	Application no. 96300330.6
Keywords: Inventive step - no Inventive step - indicia Basis of decisions - right to be heard (yes) Request for reimbursement of the appeal fee for reasons of a substantial procedural violation (refused)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.959K)
T 0568/99 () of 2.7.2003
Online on 02.12.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F25B 39/04 F28F 1/02	Application no. 86307161.9
Keywords: Range not disclosed originally				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 48.358K)
T 0620/99 (Homologous recombination/CELL GENESIS INC.) of 8.5.2003
Online on 02.12.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12P 21/06	Application no. 91900640.3
Keywords: Main request, inventive step (no) Auxiliary request 1, novelty, inventive step, sufficiency (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 59.142K)
J 0010/03 (Re-establishment/MARRILL) of 7.11.2003
Online on 01.12.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 7.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 67/00	Application no. 97943999.9
Keywords: Article 122(2) EPC requirements (no) Receipt of later renewal fees equals deemed payment in time of earlier renewal fee actually paid late (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.105K)
T 0489/01 () of 24.10.2003
Online on 01.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 24.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 33/02	Application no. 92919641.8
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.028K)
T 0979/01 () of 13.11.2003
Online on 01.12.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 13.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01B 7/34	Application no. 95307545.4
Keywords: Amendments - added subject matter (no) Claims - clarity (yes) Inventive Step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.892K)
T 0648/02 () of 17.11.2003
Online on 01.12.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 17.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 17/00	Application no. 95943204.8
Keywords: -				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.973K)
T 0944/02 (Betaine/COLGATE-PALMOLIVE) of 23.9.2003
Online on 01.12.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 95942584.4
Keywords: Inventive step (main and auxiliary request: no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.124K)

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T 1005/00 () of 4.9.2003
Online on 28.11.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 4.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D04H 18/00	Application no. 94920529.8
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments - yes Inventive step (main request and auxiliary request) - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.904K)
T 1023/00 (Stable plasma/JOUANNEAU) of 17.9.2003
Online on 28.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01J 37/00	Application no. 96925244.4
Keywords: Clarity (no) - functional feature directed to the creation of a state of matter whose very existence is in doubt and for which there is no established technique of detection Sufficiency of disclosure (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.526K)
T 1030/01 () of 10.7.2003
Online on 28.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 10.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 39/24	Application no. 95105193.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Late filed documents				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.800K)
T 1049/01 (Infrared lamp/Texas Instruments) of 30.9.2003
Online on 28.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/56	Application no. 96105280.0
Keywords: Inventive Step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.751K)
T 0407/02 (Abschirmprofil/EMI-TECH) of 12.11.2003
Online on 28.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H05K 9/00	Application no. 94250144.6
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - ja - Erklärung des Patentinhabers nach Widerruf des Patents, Beschwerde einzulegen - ohne Antrag zur Fassung des Patents in Beschwerdeschrift - genügend für Regel 64 b) EPÜ Neuheit (nein)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 54.834K)
T 0012/02 () of 14.10.2003
Online on 27.11.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 14.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B66D 1/74	Application no. 96107172.7
Keywords: Added subject-matter (no) Late submitted documents (not admitted) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.808K)
T 0552/02 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 27.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A42B 3/10	Application no. 95450006.2
Keywords: Exposé suffisant de l'invention (oui) Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Recevabilité - restitutio in integrum (oui) Pièces exclues de l'inspection publique (oui) Identité de l'opposante - transmission universelle (oui) Participation de la partie adverse à la procédure concernant une restitutio in integrum (oui) Chambre de recours liée par les Directives à l'examen (non)				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 49.639K)
W 0010/03 (Pyrimidine/BOEHRINGER) of 23.10.2003
Online on 27.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 31/505	Application no. -
Keywords: Einheitlichkeit a posteriori - nein				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 77.094K)
T 0502/00 (Bestimmung eines Analyten/DADE) of 24.9.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 24.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01N 33/546	Application no. 91121935.0
Keywords: Befugnis der Kammer zu prüfen (ja) Änderungen - Erweiterung (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 38.702K)
T 1070/00 (Antibiotic clustered genes/DSM) of 23.10.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/52	Application no. 89202060.3
Keywords: Main request and auxiliary request - added subject-matter (no) Novelty (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.072K)
T 0071/01 (Heuwerbungsmaschine/PÖTTINGER) of 10.10.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A01D 78/10	Application no. 90123923.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 41.379K)
T 0234/01 () of 21.10.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 21.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 39/28	Application no. 96200504.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.273K)
T 1059/01 (Human DNase/Genentech) of 26.11.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 26.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 9/16	Application no. 90901443.3
Keywords: All requests - inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.318K)
T 0355/03 (Piperazine/MERCK) of 30.10.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07D 209/08	Application no. 00949288.5
Keywords: Änderungsantrag (unberücksichtigt) - Eingang nach Abgabe des Erteilungsbeschlusses an Poststelle Einverständnis zur erteilten Fassung (nein) - widersprüchliche Verfahrenserklärungen - Aufklärungspflicht Rückzahlung Beschwerdegebühr (ja) - Aufklärung unterblieben - wesentlicher Verfahrensmangel				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.605K)
T 0628/99 (Seasoning sauce from bread/BESTFOODS) of 28.10.2003
Online on 26.11.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 28.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/238	Application no. 93117042.7
Keywords: Main request: novelty (no): The process of claim 1 does not confer novelty on the products obtained Auxiliary request: novelty (yes): The use of bread was not disclosed together with the process features of claim 1 Inventive step (no): The process results from an obvious combination of the prior art knowledge				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.080K)
T 0101/01 () of 30.9.2003
Online on 25.11.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B29C 65/16	Application no. 95913046.9
Keywords: Ausreichende Offenbarung (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 39.629K)
T 0653/01 () of 31.7.2003
Online on 25.11.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 31.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29B 17/02	Application no. 94304925.4
Keywords: Patentable subject-matter in view of Article 52(2)(c) EPC, yes Sufficiency of disclosure, yes Novelty, yes Inventive step, no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.326K)
T 0548/99 () of 25.11.2003
Online on 25.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 25.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01F 1/58	Application no. 91310158.0
Keywords: Inventive step - main request (no) Auxiliary request too late - not admitted				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.786K)
T 0214/00 () of 7.10.2003
Online on 24.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 7.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/48	Application no. 87905954.1
Keywords: Amended independent claims admissible - Article 123(2)(3) (yes) Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.139K)
T 0671/00 (Regelwendel - Vacuumschmelze GmbH) of 30.10.2003
Online on 24.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01C 7/02	Application no. 96105656.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.166K)
T 0552/00 (3D-MPL/SMITHKLINE) of 30.10.2003
Online on 21.11.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 39/39	Application no. 94911894.7
Keywords: Late submission - admitted Added subject-matter - main request - (no) Extension of protection - main request - (no) Priority right - main request - (yes) Novelty - main request - (yes) Inventive step - main request - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 55.037K)
T 1272/01 () of 23.9.2003
Online on 21.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 23/049	Application no. 96945714.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht) Aufgabe - Lösung Ansatz				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.644K)
T 0351/99 () of 4.11.2003
Online on 21.11.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 4.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/362	Application no. 92100427.1
Keywords: Inventive step (no) - after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.383K)
T 1051/00 (Verbesserung von Betriebsparametern/SIEMENS) of 26.2.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 26.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G05B 13/04 G05B 13/02 B21B 37/00 G06F 15/18	Application no. 92115288.0
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nein				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 37.243K)
T 0191/01 (Widescreen/SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA) of 26.6.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/44	Application no. 93116110.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.399K)
T 0289/01 (Image transmitting apparatus/CANON) of 7.5.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 1/417 H04N 1/32	Application no. 95304293.4
Keywords: Novelty (main request - no) Inventive step (auxiliary request 1 to 5 - no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.590K)
T 0315/01 (Détermination de position/TECHNOMED) of 14.5.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G01S 5/16 A61B 6/12 A61B 17/22	Application no. 92918975.1
Keywords: Activité inventive (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 29.616K)
T 0411/01 () of 9.10.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E03D 11/10	Application no. 95912100.5
Keywords: Representation (no) Specifying a period for appointment of a new respresentative (no) Added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.292K)
T 0450/01 (Digital image recording/PHASE ONE) of 23.10.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/235	Application no. 96921906.2
Keywords: Novelty (after amendment - yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.331K)
T 0846/01 (Digital broadcast system/FRANCE TELECOM) of 17.9.2002
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 17.9.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 27/02 H04L 5/02 H04L 27/28 H04B 7/005	Application no. 87904043.4
Keywords: Admissiblity of appeal (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.000K)
T 0186/03 () of 17.11.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 17.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04M 7/00	Application no. 00300375.3
Keywords: Missing statement of Grounds Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 17.081K)
T 0527/03 (Treatment for asthma/BIOGEN) of 23.10.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 39/395	Application no. 93902914.6
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 16.010K)
T 0078/96 (PCR/Hoffmann-La Roche) of 30.10.2003
Online on 20.11.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12P 19/34	Application no. 86302299.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 60.800K)
D 0001/03 () of 5.11.2003
Online on 19.11.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 5.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.768K)
T 0053/03 (Revocation at request of patent proprieter) of 10.11.2003
Online on 19.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 10.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03G 15/00	Application no. 89304909.8
Keywords: -				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 17.542K)
T 0113/99 (Urea production/UREA CASALE) of 22.10.2003
Online on 19.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 22.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 273/04	Application no. 93117226.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - non-obvious solution of the technical problem underlying the patent in suit				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.403K)
T 0796/99 () of 21.8.2003
Online on 19.11.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 21.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07D 13/00	Application no. 94917780.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Added subject matter (yes) - second auxiliary request Inventive step (no) - main request and first auxiliary request Inventive step (yes) - third auxiliary request				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 53.193K)
J 0024/01 () of 30.10.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E21B 36/00	Application no. 94932140.0
Keywords: Restitutio in integrum Request for a second decision - nullity of the second decision - Imadmissibility of the appeal against this decision Reimbursement of fee				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.177K)
J 0008/02 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 13/06	Application no. 96115710.4
Keywords: Request for further processing unnecessary but granted anyway Reimbursement of the fee for further processing (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.519K)
J 0005/03 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B60G 3/10	Application no. 99958325.5
Keywords: Mémoire de recours non déposé dans le délai - appel irrecevable				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 20.336K)
T 1064/00 () of 10.11.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 10.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 9/06	Application no. 92810953.7
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.880K)
T 0875/01 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E02D 3/12	Application no. 97104622.2
Keywords: Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.711K)
T 0181/02 () of 13.10.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 13.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01M 9/12	Application no. 96935178.2
Keywords: Admissibility of claims - no Adaptation of the description to the claims				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.113K)
T 1151/02 () of 4.11.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 4.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 29/08	Application no. 97933943.9
Keywords: Clarity (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.459K)
T 0284/03 () of 13.11.2003
Online on 18.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 13.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A63B 9/00	Application no. 95305212.3
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.555K)
T 0506/01 () of 12.11.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H01H 1/38	Application no. 94401989.2
Keywords: Recevabilité du recours (oui) Admissibilité de la description modifiée (oui) Remboursement de la taxe de recours (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 24.915K)
T 0550/01 () of 9.10.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01R 13/52	Application no. 92830133.2
Keywords: Clarity - (yes, on amendment) Novelty - (yes, on amendment) Inventive step - (yes, on amendment)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.984K)
T 1150/01 (Base for film coating pharmaceuticals/SHIN-ETSU) of 9.10.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 47/38	Application no. 91914668.8
Keywords: Main request: novelty of product-by-process claim (no): the claim encompasses known products First auxiliary request: admissibility (no): too late filed Second auxiliary request: novelty (yes): none of the cited documents discloses all the process features of the method claim Inventive step (no): there is no evidence of an improvement achieved by the process features				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 50.225K)
T 0688/03 () of 3.11.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 3.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 19/00	Application no. 95908158.9
Keywords: Missing Statements of Grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.472K)
T 0689/03 () of 3.11.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 3.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 19/00	Application no. 94922039.6
Keywords: Missing Statements of Grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.426K)
W 0016/02 (Schadinsekten/BAYER) of 17.11.2003
Online on 17.11.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 17.11.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A01N 43/42	Application no. -
Keywords: Mangelnde Einheitlichkeit "apriori und "a posterior" - verneint				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.183K)
T 1000/00 (Test device/ROCHE) of 10.9.2003
Online on 14.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 10.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/52	Application no. 95101097.4
Keywords: Main and auxiliary requests: added matter not contained in the earlier application as filed (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.932K)
T 0274/01 () of 22.9.2003
Online on 14.11.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 22.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41J 2/175	Application no. 92307270.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Withdrawal of previous requests after the Board announced its opinion that these requests were not allowable - allowed				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.022K)
T 0701/01 (Adsorption/AIR PRODUCTS) of 29.10.2003
Online on 13.11.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 29.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C01B 13/02	Application no. 93118220.8
Keywords: Substantial procedural violation, decision not based on the valid claims on file				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.580K)
T 0324/02 () of 10.10.2003
Online on 13.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F02F 3/26	Application no. 97117973.4
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.057K)
T 0606/02 () of 26.9.2003
Online on 13.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 26.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F02D 41/36	Application no. 96117576.7
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.919K)
T 0674/98 (Valve/BTG) of 29.10.2003
Online on 13.11.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 29.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01F 3/04	Application no. 93919755.4
Keywords: Inventive step: no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.525K)
T 0472/99 (Aerosol/GLAXO) of 2.10.2003
Online on 13.11.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 2.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/00	Application no. 92924669.2
Keywords: Main, first and second auxiliary requests - inventive step - no: obvious to try				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.431K)
T 0465/00 () of 21.10.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 21.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F41H 1/02	Application no. 95922494.0
Keywords: Neuheit - (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.583K)
T 0512/00 () of 24.9.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 24.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F04B 37/14	Application no. 93117764.6
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 45.269K)
T 0608/00 (Transgenic bovine/PHARMING) of 12.11.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/00	Application no. 91901026.4
Keywords: Main and auxiliary requests: allowability of amendments (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.871K)
T 0061/01 () of 10.9.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 10.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01J 37/28	Application no. 92307054.4
Keywords: Inventive step (denied)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.764K)
T 1056/01 () of 4.6.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61J 9/04	Application no. 93909037.9
Keywords: Priority requirements - burden of proof - standard of proof				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 147.210K)
T 0013/02 () of 7.10.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 7.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B66B 11/08	Application no. 96109413.3
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.536K)
T 0599/02 () of 28.4.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 28.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03C 25/02	Application no. 92310515.9
Keywords: Insufficiency of disclosure - not proven Remittal to department of first instance for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.325K)
T 0312/99 (High purity olefins/EXXON) of 12.11.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 12.11.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 11/02	Application no. 93914205.5
Keywords: Novelty (main and auxiliary request) - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.441K)
T 1091/99 (NOx reduction/CLEAN DIESEL) of 1.10.2003
Online on 12.11.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 1.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F02B 75/12	Application no. 94927236.3
Keywords: Inventive step - no; obvious combination of three different prior art processes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.595K)
T 0127/02 (Herpesvirus mutants stromal keratitis/HARVARD) of 16.9.2003
Online on 11.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 16.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 7/04	Application no. 95907356.0
Keywords: Added subject-matter - no Clarity - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.641K)
T 0483/03 () of 30.10.2003
Online on 11.11.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 30.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60K 15/03	Application no. 98115000.6
Keywords: Ursprünglich offenbarter Gegenstand der Anmeldung (ja) Klarheit (ja, nach Änderung) Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja, nach Änderung)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.918K)
T 0619/00 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 10.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01M 2/16	Application no. 92914965.6
Keywords: Main request - added subject-matter (yes) First auxiliary request - admissibility of new dependent claims (no) Second auxiliary request - added subject-matter (no) - sufficiency of disclosure (yes) - novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 78.612K)
T 0982/00 () of 3.9.2003
Online on 10.11.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 3.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 18/08	Application no. 90309949.7
Keywords: Maintenance - in amended form Amendments - broadening of claims (no) Basis of Decision -. opportunity to comment (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step - problem and solution (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 57.972K)
T 1062/01 () of 21.5.2003
Online on 10.11.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41F 31/02	Application no. 93120184.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (main request and first, third and fourth auxiliary requests, no) Addition of subject-matter (second auxiliary request, yes) Different apportionment of costs (no) Oral proceedings in the absence of the appellant				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.788K)
T 0979/02 () of 8.10.2003
Online on 10.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 21/35 A61B 5/00	Application no. 95910197.3
Keywords: Single request filed by the applicant shortly before the oral proceedings, which it did not attend Evident deficiencies of the application documents Request not admitted in the proceedings				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.014K)
T 1119/02 () of 1.10.2003
Online on 10.11.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 1.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C08F 10/02	Application no. 98202762.5
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 42.743K)
J 0021/03 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC -	Application no. 02290395.9
Keywords: Requête en restitutio in integrum - paiement de la taxe de dépôt et de recherche dans le délai - rejet				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 16.895K)
T 0713/01 () of 7.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 7.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 36/04	Application no. 96112946.7
Keywords: Novelty (no) -"product-by-process" feature not distinguishing				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 56.330K)
T 0991/01 () of 14.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 14.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 6/42 H01S 3/025	Application no. 97107800.1
Keywords: Late argument based on a translation of a JP patent application forming the closest prior art; translation forwarded by the examining division to the applicant after the oral proceedings at which it had announced its decision to refuse the patent application; translation admitted into the proceedings: remittal to the first instance				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.476K)
T 0177/02 () of 8.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A47J 27/21	Application no. 94420214.2
Keywords: Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 48.145K)
T 1214/02 () of 29.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 29.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 47/06	Application no. 99964622.7
Keywords: Claims substantially amended on appeal - remittal to first instance				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.534K)
T 0517/99 () of 8.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C09J 5/00	Application no. 96919795.3
Keywords: Klarheit von funktionellen Merkmalen - nach Änderung - bejaht Neuheit - nach Änderung - bejaht Ausführbarkeit im beanspruchten Umfang - nach Änderung - bejaht				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 38.869K)
T 0859/99 () of 1.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 1.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C23F 11/18	Application no. 94922862.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.284K)
W 0002/03 (Metallocene compounds/BASELL) of 8.10.2003
Online on 07.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Insufficient reasoning of the invitation to pay an additional search fee - failure to determine the technical problem and its solution - disregard of a decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal - reimbursement of the additional search fee and the protest fee				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 78.014K)
J 0007/03 () of 23.10.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61C 8/00	Application no. 99120744.0
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde (nein) Anforderungen an den Inhalt einer Beschwerdebegründung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.646K)
T 0036/00 (Proteinase deficient fungi/GENENCOR) of 2.10.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 2.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 1/15	Application no. 89908939.5
Keywords: Main request - broadening of claims (no) Novelty and inventive step (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 56.219K)
T 0401/00 () of 10.9.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D06F 67/08	Application no. 93870095.2
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Clarity (yes) Admissible amendment (auxiliary request 2) (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (main and auxiliary requests 1 and 3) (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 61.801K)
T 1186/00 () of 16.10.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 16.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23K 9/04	Application no. 93906646.0
Keywords: Amendments - allowability (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.608K)
T 0732/02 () of 23.10.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60C 23/04	Application no. 96902815.8
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.231K)
T 0273/03 () of 20.10.2003
Online on 06.11.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 20.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60Q 7/00	Application no. 98660022.9
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.217K)
T 0149/02 () of 25.7.2003
Online on 05.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 25.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 33/00	Application no. 93118670.4
Keywords: Reformatio in peius Clarity - (yes)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 55.196K)
T 0752/03 () of 31.10.2003
Online on 05.11.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 31.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 167/04	Application no. 95922002.1
Keywords: Missing statement setting out the grounds of appeal				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.538K)
T 0145/00 (Filter/SGTE) of 2.9.2003
Online on 04.11.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 2.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 46/00	Application no. 94200092.8
Keywords: Inventive step (confirmed)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.207K)
T 0212/01 () of 9.9.2003
Online on 04.11.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 9.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21F 1/00	Application no. 90907246.4
Keywords: Novelty (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.232K)
T 0336/01 () of 30.9.2003
Online on 04.11.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H03J 7/28	Application no. 89120170.9
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.585K)
T 1243/01 () of 17.9.2003
Online on 04.11.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 4/646	Application no. 91906066.5
Keywords: Novelty (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 59.774K)
W 0019/03 (WIDERSPRUCH) of 10.10.2003
Online on 04.11.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 41/09	Application no. -
Keywords: Einheitlichkeit - nein (Merkmale der beiden Erfindungen weder als gleich noch als entsprechende anzusehen)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 60.061K)
T 0097/00 (Catalyst activation/SHELL) of 25.9.2003
Online on 03.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 25.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 1/04	Application no. 92202517.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no) - obvious solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.609K)
T 0718/00 (Übergangsmetallkomplexe/CROMPTON) of 9.10.2003
Online on 03.11.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 9.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07F 17/00	Application no. 94120380.4
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.600K)
T 0874/00 () of 25.9.2003
Online on 03.11.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 25.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 5/12	Application no. 95909131.5
Keywords: Inventive step (no) - obvious combination				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.374K)
T 1204/97 (Air filter/DONALDSON) of 11.4.2003
Online on 03.11.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 11.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 46/24	Application no. 87906256.0
Keywords: Admissibility of the transfer of an appeal to a party having withdrawn its own opposition earlier in the proceedings and being the legal successor of the appellant: yes, legitimate interest in continuing the appeal proceedings not necessary Proper construction of claim Inventive step, no - obvious way of reducing to practice prior art teaching				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 55.569K)

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T 0195/01 () of 30.9.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H03H 9/145	Application no. 94909149.0
Keywords: Pouvoir discrétionnaire de la division d'opposition exercé correctement (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 32.988K)
T 0518/01 () of 20.8.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 20.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C21C 7/10	Application no. 95307276.6
Keywords: Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.921K)
T 0567/01 () of 26.8.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 26.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C22C 38/08	Application no. 94106539.3
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) nach Änderung				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.150K)
T 0998/99 (Hautäquivalent/L'OREAL) of 15.9.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 88400502.6
Keywords: Wirksamkeit des Prioritätsanspruchs - verneint: Artikel 87 (1) EPÜ erlaubt innerhalb der Prioritätsfrist keine Inanspruchnahme derselben Priorität für die Einreichung mehrerer Anmeldungen, die dieselbe Erfindung betreffen, in ein und demselben Land Berichtigung von Mängeln - verneint: der Anmeldetag einer Teilanmeldung kann nicht nach Regel 88 EPÜ durch den Anmeldetag der Stammanmeldung ersetzt werden Vorlage an die Große Beschwerdekammer - verneint: fehlende Rechtsprechung an sich ist kein Grund				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 97.768K)
T 0998/99 (Skin equivalent/L'OREAL) of 15.9.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 88400502.6
Keywords: Validity of priority - no: Article 87(1) does not permit the same priority to be claimedover the priority period in respect of the filing in one and the same country of several applications concerning the same invention Correction of error - no: the filing date of a divisional application cannot be replaced by that of the original application under Rule 88 EPC Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - no: the non-existence of case law is not a reason in itself				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 86.807K)
T 0998/99 (Equivalent de peau/L'OREAL) of 15.9.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 88400502.6
Keywords: Validité de la priorité - non : l'article 87(1) ne permet pas de revendiquer dans le délai de priorité la même priorité pour le dépôt dans un même pays de plusieurs demandes concernant la même invention Correction d'erreur - non : la date de dépôt d'une demande divisionnaire ne peut être remplacée par celle de la demande initiale au titre de la règle 88 de la CBE Saisine de la Grande Chambre - non : l'absence de jurisprudence ne constitue pas une raison en soi				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 88.438K)
T 0998/99 (Equivalent de peau/L'OREAL) of 15.9.2003
Online on 31.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 88400502.6
Keywords: Validité de la priorité - non : l'article 87(1) ne permet pas de revendiquer la même priorité pour le dépôt dans un même pays de plusieurs demandes concernant la même invention Correction d'erreur - non : la date de dépôt d'une demande divisionnaire ne peut être remplacée par celle de la demande initiale au titre de la règle 88 de la CBE Saisine de la Grande Chambre - non : l'absence de jurisprudence ne constitue pas une raison en soi				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 52.603K)
T 0042/00 (Hydrocracking and hydrodewaxing/AKZO) of 10.7.2003
Online on 30.10.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 10.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10G 65/12	Application no. 94928879.9
Keywords: Amendments to the claims originated by grounds for opposition (yes) Novelty (main request) - no - all features disclosed in combination Novelty (auxiliary request) - yes Inventive step (auxiliary request): no - technical advantage over closest prior art not proven for all process conditions encompassed by claim 1 - burden of proof on the Appellants				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.550K)
T 0816/01 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 30.10.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65B 57/10	Application no. 96116464.7
Keywords: Nächstkommender Stand der Technik; Erfinderische Tätgikeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 45.091K)
T 1149/01 () of 19.9.2003
Online on 30.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 19.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F27B 7/28 F23M 5/02	Application no. 95903016.4
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no) Costs - apportionment - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.502K)
T 0142/02 () of 16.9.2003
Online on 30.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 16.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B02C 17/16	Application no. 95119228.5
Keywords: Neuheit (verneint) Zulässigkeit eines Hilfantrages (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 35.500K)
T 0184/03 () of 24.10.2003
Online on 30.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 24.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 5/26	Application no. 90117192.6
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 18.543K)
T 0704/02 (Combinatorial synthesis/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA) of 30.9.2003
Online on 29.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 19/00	Application no. 99203886.9
Keywords: Amended claims - clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) No extension beyond parent application - remitted for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.119K)
T 1156/98 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 29.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01B 1/20	Application no. 93105944.8
Keywords: Statement of grounds of appeal - sufficient grounds (yes) Claims - clarity (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.190K)
T 0068/99 () of 12.6.2003
Online on 29.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/20	Application no. 89110301.2
Keywords: Several independent claims replacing a single broader claim - admissible (yes) Lower limit of range taken from examples - added subject- matter (no) Change of dependencies of claims - added subject-matter (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 63.140K)
T 0585/99 (Baustoff-Einfärbung/BAYER) of 17.3.2003
Online on 29.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 17.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C04B 18/02	Application no. 94116230.7
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit: ja - nicht nahegelegte Alternative				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 45.003K)
T 0737/00 (Süßungsmittel/SÜDZUCKER) of 21.5.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C12P 19/24	Application no. 93120934.0
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 55.108K)
T 0894/00 () of 8.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 8.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D06N 7/00	Application no. 95942090.2
Keywords: Änderung - Erweiterung (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.634K)
T 0005/01 (Protein purification/BAYER) of 23.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 23.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 1/18	Application no. 91107661.0
Keywords: Text disapproved - revocation				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 16.878K)
T 0960/01 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 11/02	Application no. 96930984.8
Keywords: Änderungen - Anspruchserweiterung, Hauptantrag (verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit, Hauptantrag (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.786K)
T 1052/01 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F15B 19/00	Application no. 94931553.5
Keywords: Zulässigkeit von neuen Patentansprüchen im Einspruchsverfahren (keine Ermessensfrage) Erweiterung des Schutzbereichs (nein) Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 50.008K)
T 0219/02 () of 1.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 1.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01L 1/344	Application no. 96308651.7
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.717K)
T 0071/03 () of 21.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 21.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 7/42	Application no. 96941708.8
Keywords: Irrecevabilité Motifs du recours non déposés en temps utile				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 15.768K)
T 0110/03 () of 20.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F25D 23/04	Application no. 97109506.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.394K)
T 0216/96 (PCR/HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG) of 20.10.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 20.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12Q 1/68	Application no. 86302298.4
Keywords: Added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 79.400K)
T 0785/97 (Support bound oligonucleotides/OXFORD GENE TECHNOLOGY) of 30.9.2003
Online on 28.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 21/00	Application no. 89910878.1
Keywords: Late-filed documents - admitted into proceedings Extension of scope of protection - all requests - (no) Extension beyond the application as filed - main request and second auxiliary request - (yes) Right to priority - all requests - (no) Inventive step - first auxiliary request - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.918K)
T 0555/00 () of 11.3.2003
Online on 27.10.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 11.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41J 32/00	Application no. 94111886.1
Keywords: Divisional application of a divisional application (formally allowable) Extension beyond the content of the parent application (yes)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.294K)
T 0671/01 () of 17.6.2003
Online on 24.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 17.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B21K 27/02	Application no. 93203080.2
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes Amendments - feature disclosed only in drawings (allowed)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.846K)
T 0130/02 (Combinatorial synthesis/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA) of 30.9.2003
Online on 24.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C01G 51/04	Application no. 95937472.9
Keywords: Amended claims - novelty (yes) - remittal for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.933K)
T 0309/02 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 24.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E04G 11/06 E02D 5/18 E02D 27/02	Application no. 96120679.4
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (anerkannt)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.499K)
T 0608/02 () of 13.10.2003
Online on 24.10.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 13.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 81/05	Application no. 98945517.5
Keywords: Novelty - yes, after amendment Remittal for further prosecution				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.564K)
T 1134/02 () of 10.10.2003
Online on 24.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F22B 29/06	Application no. 97915255.0
Keywords: Klarheit der Ansprüche (verneint) Rechtliches Gehör				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.353K)
J 0009/99 (Allgemeine Vollmacht/DC) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.10.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Befugnisse der Rechtsabteilung - allgemeine Vollmachten - Prüfung Vertretungsbefugnis - ja - Erlaß ablehnender Entscheidung - ja - nur gegenüber Beteiligten im Sinne von R. 101(2) - Bevollmächtigte und Vollmachtgeber - nicht - Dritte				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.191K)
J 0009/99 (Allgemeine Vollmacht/DC) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.10.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Befugnisse der Rechtsabteilung - allgemeine Vollmachten - Püfung Vertretungsbefugnis - ja - Erlaß ablehnender Entscheidung - ja - nur gegenüber Beteiligten im Sinne von R. 101(2) - Bevollmächtigte und Vollmachtgeber - nicht - Dritte				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 884.520K)
J 0009/99 (General authorisation/DC) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.10.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Powers of the Legal Division - general authorisations - examination of the right to represent - yes - issuance of decision to reject registration - yes - only concerning parties within the authorisation process under Rule 101(2)¹ - authorised and authorising parties - not third parties				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.471K)
J 0009/99 (Pouvoir général/DC) of 10.10.2003
Online on 23.10.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 10.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Compétence de la division juridique - pouvoirs généraux - examen de l'habilitation à assurer la représentation - oui - décision de rejet - oui - seulement à l'encontre des parties au sens de la règle 101(2) - mandataires et mandants - non à l'encontre de tiers				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 43.657K)
T 0810/00 (Hydrogel compositions/UNILEVER) of 2.10.2003
Online on 23.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 2.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 13/00	Application no. 97919017.0
Keywords: Admissibility of disclaimer: not decided in view of pending referrals Novelty: no (both requests) - functionally defined lower limit of a parameter (viscosity) range - claimed sub-range arbitrarily chosen - difference in wording but not in substance - clear and unmistakable implicit disclosure in prior art of viscosities falling in the claimed sub-range				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.286K)
T 1182/00 (Vinylimidazole/vinylpyrrolidone copolymer/HENKEL) of 12.6.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/37	Application no. 93870154.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - alternative not suggested in the prior art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.707K)
T 0197/01 () of 14.10.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 14.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01R 13/11	Application no. 94117372.6
Keywords: Novelty, inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.397K)
T 0502/01 () of 14.10.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 14.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G07B 17/02	Application no. 95109864.9
Keywords: Neuheit (bejaht) Klarheit der Ansprüche (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.055K)
T 0503/01 () of 7.10.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 7.10.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H01R 23/72	Application no. 96401659.6
Keywords: Activité inventive (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 27.303K)
T 0577/98 (Medical implants/US SURGICAL CORP.) of 7.5.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 92102261.2
Keywords: Inventive step: (no) - addition of a further obvious process step to a process known per se is in the present case not inventive; first and second auxiliary requests: idem				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 55.438K)
T 0287/99 (Aerosol medicaments/GLAXO) of 12.3.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 12.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/12	Application no. 91919751.7
Keywords: Main request: inventive step (no) - technical teaching of a prior art document which renders the claimed invention obvious is not confined to the detailed information given in the examples of how the invention is carried out but embraces any reproducible technical teaching described in that document Auxiliary requests: inventive step (no) - idem				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 102.656K)
T 1048/99 (Compositions for gastrointestinal disorders/THE PROCTER & GAMBLE … of 22.10.2003
Online on 22.10.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 22.10.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/415	Application no. 88200396.5
Keywords: Main request and auxiliary requests 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 - inventive step - no: incentive to try Auxiliary requests 4, 5 - admissibility - no: late filed				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.080K)
W 0018/02 (Funktionsflüssigkeit/IAV GmbH) of 17.9.2003
Online on 21.10.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Begründungsmangel der Aufforderung gemäß Artikel 17(3)a) PCT - fehlende Auseinandersetzung mit der Aufgabe der Anmeldung und deren Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.092K)
T 0967/01 () of 23.9.2003
Online on 20.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G08G 1/01	Application no. 97953622.4
Keywords: Klarheit (ja, nach Änderung) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja, nach Änderung)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 22.990K)
T 0155/02 () of 9.9.2003
Online on 20.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 9.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 11/04 B22D 11/20 B22D 11/12	Application no. 93115552.7
Keywords: Inventive step - non-obvious combination of known features				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.183K)
T 0665/98 () of 15.10.2003
Online on 20.10.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 15.10.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C25D 5/50	Application no. 91916565.4
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bestätigt)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.393K)
T 1050/00 (Hierarchial encoding/SONY) of 7.8.2003
Online on 17.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 7.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/13	Application no. 94303869.5
Keywords: Inventive step (main and auxiliary request, no) Inadmissible request				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.024K)
T 0632/02 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 17.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B21H 3/02 B21J 5/08	Application no. 95908321.3
Keywords: Relevant content of a patent publication, when assessing inventive step Inventive step (no) Prejudice in the art (no) Obvious to try with a reasonable expectation of success				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.201K)
T 1146/97 (MPEG/AT&T) of 30.9.2003
Online on 17.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/13 H04N 7/133 H04N 7/137	Application no. 92310143.0
Keywords: Novelty and Inventive step (main request) - (yes, after amendment)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.614K)
T 0911/98 (Air conditioner/NIPPONDENSO) of 9.4.2003
Online on 17.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60H 1/00	Application no. 85307532.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Late filing of claims (yes) Amendments occasioned by grounds of opposition (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.492K)
T 1250/01 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 16.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C01B 33/193	Application no. 94115165.6
Keywords: Haupt- und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 2: Ausreichende Offenbarung (verneint) Hilfsanträge 3 bis 4: Änderungen - Erweiterung (bejaht)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 51.445K)
T 0509/02 (Module électronique/GEMPLUS) of 19.2.2003
Online on 16.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 19.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G06K 19/077	Application no. 98914903.4
Keywords: Activité inventive (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 33.031K)
T 0866/00 (Dérivés du titane/ATOFINA) of 30.9.2003
Online on 15.10.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C07C 57/04	Application no. 97401908.5
Keywords: Suffisance de l'exposé (oui)				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 26.092K)
T 0912/00 () of 29.8.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 29.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 29/92	Application no. 92113424.3
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.988K)
T 0944/00 (Pulp bleaching/UNION CAMP) of 20.8.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 20.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21C 9/153	Application no. 92900256.6
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments - yes; claims duly supported by the description Admissibility of amendments - yes; particular combination of features disclosed in the application as filed Novelty - yes; no clear and unambiguous disclosure in the prior art.				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.047K)
T 1135/00 () of 12.8.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 12.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23F 13/02	Application no. 96610001.8
Keywords: Admissibility of main and auxiliary requests I to VII (no: amendments to the claims of the granted patent not occasioned by grounds of appeal Inventive step (auxiliary request VIII, yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.055K)
T 0026/01 (Formylvalerate/DSM) of 5.8.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 5.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 69/716	Application no. 95200012.3
Keywords: Novelty (yes) - prior art silent about feature - no implicit disclosure - inadequate evidence Inventive step (no) - obvious to try - no deterrent teaching in the art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.633K)
T 0087/01 () of 11.9.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 11.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G11B 7/09	Application no. 88112739.3
Keywords: Novelty - main and first auxiliary request (no) Extension of the protection - second auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - third auxiliary request (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.071K)
T 0835/99 (Quenching agent/UNILEVER) of 27.6.2003
Online on 14.10.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 1/62	Application no. 91311050.8
Keywords: Amendments extending beyond content of application as filed (main and auxiliary request): no Novelty (main and auxiliary request): yes Inventive step (main and auxiliary request): no - alternative application of the quenching agent obvious to try for the skilled person				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.849K)
T 0196/01 () of 4.9.2003
Online on 13.10.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 4.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07B 17/02	Application no. 94201324.4
Keywords: Added subject-matter (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.396K)
T 0817/99 () of 16.7.2003
Online on 13.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 7/075	Application no. 92901690.5
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Inventive step - problem and solution - main request - no Remittal to the first instance - auxiliary request - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306.907K)
T 1030/00 (Catalyst removal from oligomer product/FORTUM OIL) of 22.7.2003
Online on 10.10.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 2/20	Application no. 94870107.3
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) - non-obvious solution A document available to any person subject to payment is prior art under Article 54 EPC				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.623K)
T 1034/00 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 10.10.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65B 31/02	Application no. 93107650.9
Keywords: Verspätetes Vorbringen; Zurückverweisung (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.933K)
T 1106/02 () of 15.9.2003
Online on 10.10.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 81/26	Application no. 97113670.0
Keywords: Clarity - main and auxiliary requests (yes) Inventive step - main and auxiliary requests (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.640K)
T 0733/00 () of 9.9.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 9.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 27/30	Application no. 93114091.7
Keywords: Inadmissible amendment - main request (yes); auxiliary request 1 (no), after amendment				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.161K)
T 1152/00 (Carte à mémoire/GEMPLUS) of 6.6.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 6.6.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G06K 19/073	Application no. 95903372.1
Keywords: Activité inventive (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 29.548K)
T 0055/01 (Satellite broadcast recording/SONY) of 11.2.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 11.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/44	Application no. 92115521.4
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Public availability of mass-produced consumer goods (TV- receivers)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.876K)
T 0158/01 (Video display adjustment/BELISHA) of 20.5.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/445 G09G 1/16 G09G 5/00	Application no. 92113837.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes, after amendment)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.970K)
T 0442/01 (Katalysatorregenerierung/DEGUSSA) of 28.8.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 28.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07D 301/12	Application no. 96108386.2
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) - Kombination nicht offenbart - Verfahrensmaßnahme nicht unmittelbar und eindeutig offenbart Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - verbessertes Verfahren - kein Hinweis im Stand der Technik auf patentgemäße Aufgabe - Stand der Technik betrifft anderen Reaktions-Typ				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 38.941K)
T 0315/02 () of 12.9.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 12.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61B 17/60	Application no. 95810535.5
Keywords: Document de priorité accessible au public Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 30.204K)
T 0747/02 (Data transmission method/NETFRATERNITY) of 1.7.2003
Online on 09.10.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 29/06 H04L 12/14	Application no. 98963505.7
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.030K)
T 0101/00 () of 3.7.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 69/00	Application no. 90106536.7
Keywords: Form of appeal - missing statement of grounds (appeal of opponent 02) Opposition grounds - insufficiency of disclosure (not admitted) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) - problem and solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 60.284K)
T 0414/00 () of 15.9.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 9/32	Application no. 93303506.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - problem and solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.626K)
T 0876/00 () of 29.7.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 29.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 4/76	Application no. 91912554.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) - prior European applications				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 532.400K)
T 1132/00 (Hormonal treatment/PRE JAY HOLDINGS LTD., ET AL) of 29.9.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 29.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 38/22	Application no. 84305260.6
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.720K)
T 0419/01 () of 20.3.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E05B 47/06 E05B 49/00	Application no. 96105945.8
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.425K)
T 0991/02 (Tubes à base de polyamide/ATOFINA) of 26.9.2003
Online on 08.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 26.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F16L 11/12	Application no. 96400411.3
Keywords: Renvoi de l'affaire en première instance (oui) - vice majeur Rejet d'une requête sur le fondement de la règle 29(2) CBE nouvelle version - inapplicabilité de cette nouvelle disposition au cas d'espèce Vice substantiel de procédure (oui) - remboursement de la taxe de recours (oui)				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 24.149K)
T 1202/00 () of 4.9.2003
Online on 07.10.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 4.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08L 83/06	Application no. 95100809.3
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - nicht naheliegende Alternative				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 51.153K)
T 0794/01 () of 28.8.2003
Online on 07.10.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 28.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08F 4/24	Application no. 93101628.1
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) - gegenüber Druckschrift durch unterschiedliche Produktherstellung - gegenüber Vorbenutzung durch fehlenden Weiterbehandlungsschritt Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - Einbahnstraßen-Situation				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 59.516K)
T 0286/01 (Humanised antibodies/CELLTECH THERAPEUTICS LTD.) of 28.8.2003
Online on 06.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 28.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12P 21/08	Application no. 91901433.2
Keywords: Allowability of amendments (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.257K)
T 0413/01 () of 6.8.2003
Online on 06.10.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 6.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 6/00	Application no. 89905117.1
Keywords: Admissibility of a brochure as prior art Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.146K)
T 1115/97 (Herbicide resistant plant/MGI) of 3.12.2002
Online on 06.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 3.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/01	Application no. 85101422.5
Keywords: Inventive step - all requests - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.479K)
T 1137/97 (Marek's Disease Virus Vaccine/AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION) of 14.10.2002
Online on 06.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 14.10.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 39/255	Application no. 91203365.1
Keywords: Transfer of opponent status - allowable (yes) Appeal by original opponent - filed before entry at EPO of transfer of opposition - admissible (yes) Appeal by transferee of opposition - filed before entry at EPO of transfer of opposition - admissible (no) Prior publication - date of receipt of journal in library - strength of presumptions based on circumstantial evidence Apportionment of costs (yes) - fixed amount awarded by board				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.578K)
W 0020/02 (Therapy for estrogen-dependent disorders/PHARMACIA) of 30.9.2003
Online on 06.10.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 38/09 A61P 35/00	Application no. -
Keywords: Unity of invention - (yes) Additional search fees - refund - (yes) Protest fee - refund - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.454K)
T 0299/02 () of 15.9.2003
Online on 03.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 15.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B22D 11/04	Application no. 95906266.2
Keywords: Widerruf des Patents auf Antrag der Patentinhaberin				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 16.184K)
T 0518/00 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 49/08	Application no. 92200669.7
Keywords: Addition of subject-matter (main and first auxiliary requests, yes; second auxiliary request, no) Divisional application (extension beyond the content of the earlier application as filed - no) Clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Acknowledgement of prior art (allowable)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 57.204K)
T 0685/00 () of 13.8.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 13.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D06M 15/53	Application no. 92304839.1
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.766K)
T 1117/00 () of 23.9.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 23.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/532	Application no. 96300522.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.133K)
T 0129/01 () of 25.6.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B23K 35/38	Application no. 96400571.4
Keywords: Nouveauté - (oui, requête principale et subsidiaire) Activité inventive (non : requête principale ; oui : requête subsidiaire) Vice substantiel de procédure (oui, non-respect d'un délai suffisamment long pour présenter des observations sur la réponse du propriétaire à l'opposition				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 45.051K)
T 0809/01 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F16C 11/06 F16C 33/10	Application no. 94117642.2
Keywords: Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.370K)
T 0791/02 () of 25.9.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 25.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16H 41/02 B62M 19/00	Application no. 98926234.0
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) International Preliminary Examination Report adopted by the Examining Division as the only grounds for refusing the application under the EPC - substantial procedural violation (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.094K)
T 0866/98 () of 8.5.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 7/13	Application no. 92400553.1
Keywords: Modifications - recevables (oui) Activité inventive (non) - problème et solution - alternative évidente				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 49.910K)
W 0014/02 (Extraction/SYNGENTA) of 2.9.2003
Online on 02.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 2.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C02F 1/26	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.473K)
T 1237/01 () of 5.8.2003
Online on 01.10.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 5.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C04B 35/111	Application no. 95918570.3
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 40.206K)
T 0095/03 () of 3.9.2003
Online on 01.10.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 3.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E02F 9/28	Application no. 96943414.1
Keywords: Bona fide				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.938K)

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T 0785/01 (Dispositif correcteur/VALEO VISION) of 30.9.2003
Online on 30.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B60Q 1/076	Application no. 97401748.5
Keywords: Restitutio in integrum dans délai de recours de deux mois - système de surveillance des délais - méprise isolée (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 32.279K)
T 0908/01 () of 5.9.2003
Online on 30.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 5.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65D 8/02	Application no. 95933362.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.033K)
T 1088/01 (Pharmaceutical formulations/ELAN CORPORATIONS, Plc) of 7.8.2003
Online on 30.09.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 7.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/54	Application no. 88310910.0
Keywords: Novelty - yes: undisclosed feature in prior art document Remittal - yes: essential issues not dealt with				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.799K)
W 0003/03 (Optische Struktur/ORGA KARTENSYSTEME) of 30.9.2003
Online on 30.09.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 30.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G06K 19/08 G06K 19/10 G06K 19/14 G06K 19/16 G06K 19/18 G42D 15/10	Application no. -
Keywords: Einwand mangelnder Einheitlichkeit weder vor noch mit Erstbescheid erhoben Rückzahlung der zusätzlichen Gebühren (bejaht)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.406K)
T 0515/00 () of 25.6.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41J 21/08	Application no. 92302716.3
Keywords: Added subject-matter (main request and first auxiliary request) - no Clarity (yes) Disclosure - sufficiency (yes) Inventive step (main request) - no Inventive step (first auxiliary request) - yes Entitlement to priority - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 58.479K)
T 0748/00 (Oligomer libraries/AFFYMAX) of 22.9.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 22.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 21/00	Application no. 92920422.0
Keywords: Main request and first auxiliary requests - added subject- matter - yes Second auxiliary request - sufficiency of disclosure - yes Second auxiliary request - novelty and inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.734K)
T 0939/02 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 21/22	Application no. 97110045.8
Keywords: Neuheit - Hauptantrag (verneint), Hilfsantrag (bejaht), Erfinderische Tätigkeit, Hilfsantrag (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.014K)
T 1094/02 () of 24.7.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65C 3/08	Application no. 98107291.1
Keywords: Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 18.291K)
T 0201/03 () of 14.9.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 14.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 96933710.4
Keywords: Statement of grounds for the appeal - not filed				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.859K)
T 0060/98 () of 25.4.2003
Online on 29.09.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 25.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 17/34	Application no. 90310496.6
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments - (yes) Novelty inventive step - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.871K)
T 0538/03 () of 18.9.2003
Online on 26.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.9.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F16H 63/30	Application no. 99916966.7
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Renvoi devant la première instance pour examiner la question de l'activité inventive				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 20.689K)
T 0367/02 () of 17.9.2003
Online on 25.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 17.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B62J 9/00	Application no. 96931036.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - bejaht				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.286K)
T 0624/02 () of 5.9.2003
Online on 25.09.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 5.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47J 31/08	Application no. 96910033.8
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit - (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 36.164K)
T 1085/00 (Glaskörpertamponade/CHIRON ADATOMED) of 14.8.2003
Online on 24.09.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 14.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 31/025	Application no. 93108504.7
Keywords: Geändertes Anspruchsbegehren durch die Anmeldung in der ursprünglich eingereichten Fssung ausreichend gestützt Neuheit nach Änderung: ja Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.879K)
T 0290/00 () of 2.9.2003
Online on 23.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 2.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 33/02	Application no. 94120574.2
Keywords: Novelty and inventive step - (yes - after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.042K)
T 0564/01 () of 11.6.2003
Online on 23.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 11.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/92	Application no. 96109828.2
Keywords: Main request: inventive step (no) First and second auxiliary requests: unallowable amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.398K)
T 0077/99 () of 24.7.2003
Online on 23.09.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 7/10	Application no. 89308141.4
Keywords: Inventive step - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.273K)
T 0087/99 (Lubricant additives/LUBRIZOL) of 17.7.2003
Online on 23.09.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10M 163/00	Application no. 92913376.7
Keywords: Admissibility of a late-filed document (no) - refusal to admit in line with the relevant provisions of the EPC				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.271K)
W 0015/03 () of 8.9.2003
Online on 23.09.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 8.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A22C 25/04	Application no. -
Keywords: Einheitlichkeit (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 59.210K)
T 0494/00 (Aqueous Compositions/SMITHKLINE BEECHAM PLC) of 30.7.2003
Online on 22.09.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 2/00	Application no. 93919533.5
Keywords: Amendments allowable under Article 123(2) EPC (no): claim 1 of the main and auxiliary requests extends beyond the contents of the application as filed				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.978K)
T 0805/00 (Ethylene dichloride/NALCO) of 15.7.2003
Online on 22.09.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 19/045	Application no. 92303196.7
Keywords: Late filed evidence (not admitted) - lack of relevance Prior use (no) - no pertinent evidence about the chemical structure of the product used Main request: inventive step (no) - obvious solution - no deterrent teaching Auxiliary request: concurring requests of Appellant and Respondent for maintenance on that basis				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.272K)
T 1176/00 () of 23.7.2003
Online on 22.09.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 23.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07B 17/00	Application no. 94101533.1
Keywords: Stay of proceedings on divisional patent until parent case settled - (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.044K)
T 0216/01 () of 6.8.2003
Online on 22.09.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 6.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01F 38/12	Application no. 95119136.0
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (main request - yes) Claims - clarity (auxiliary request - no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.971K)
T 1001/98 () of 10.9.2003
Online on 22.09.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 10.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 6/42 H05K 3/32 H01L 33/00	Application no. 89301985.1
Keywords: Inventive step - yes In-house knowledge not published before priority date				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.279K)
T 0085/00 () of 9.9.2003
Online on 19.09.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 9.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G07D 5/08	Application no. 93119509.3
Keywords: Unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Hinreichende Offenbarung (ja) Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 35.404K)
T 0164/01 () of 18.8.2003
Online on 19.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 18.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B27N 1/00	Application no. 94111375.5
Keywords: Neuheit - nach Änderung (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 19.992K)
T 0044/03 () of 13.8.2003
Online on 19.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 13.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B05D 1/24	Application no. 97917882.9
Keywords: Novelty - (yes, after amendment) Remittal to the first instance				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.025K)
T 1196/00 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 18.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 2/06	Application no. 92309822.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.846K)
T 1190/01 () of 22.7.2003
Online on 18.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 11/06	Application no. 98929636.3
Keywords: Novelty, inventive step, unity of invention (yes) after amendment				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.098K)
T 0911/99 () of 5.8.2003
Online on 18.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 5.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 18/44	Application no. 95112862.8
Keywords: Inventive step - main, first, second auxiliary requests (no) Remittal to first instance - third auxiliary request				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.802K)
T 0758/00 () of 20.8.2003
Online on 17.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 20.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 27/148	Application no. 90113691.1
Keywords: Admissibility of the amendments (yes) Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.639K)
T 0710/00 (Pipettiersystem/EPPENDORF) of 24.7.2003
Online on 16.09.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B01L 3/02	Application no. 93103815.2
Keywords: Allgemeines Fachwissen - eine Einsprechende darf sich diesbezüglich nicht auf die Darstellung im Streitpatent verlassen (Punkt 5)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.254K)
T 0478/01 () of 8.9.2003
Online on 16.09.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 8.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65D 77/06	Application no. 95112003.9
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.106K)
T 0864/01 (AlGaN light emitting diode/ROHM) of 15.7.2003
Online on 16.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 33/00	Application no. 97924285.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.705K)
T 1067/00 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 15.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22F 1/04	Application no. 96200060.0
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.855K)
T 1115/00 () of 15.7.2003
Online on 15.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 38/12	Application no. 95939832.2
Keywords: Novelty and inventive step (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.185K)
T 0203/01 () of 5.8.2003
Online on 15.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01S 3/19	Application no. 95105817.1
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.921K)
T 0815/02 () of 21.8.2003
Online on 15.09.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 21.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E04B 1/86 E01B 19/00 B32B 5/26 B32B 33/00	Application no. 99108537.4
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (anerkannt) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr (abgelehnt)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.567K)
T 0514/99 (Aqueous bleach composition/UNILEVER) of 2.7.2003
Online on 15.09.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/39	Application no. 91200119.5
Keywords: Technical problem relating to an alleged effect not solved - insufficient experimental support (points 4.1 to 4.4 of the Reasons) Inventive step (no) -obvious alternative to prior art composition				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 56.765K)
T 1164/00 (Bonded sheet material/DEXTER) of 2.9.2003
Online on 12.09.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 2.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21H 17/17	Application no. 93310508.2
Keywords: Substantial procedural failure (yes): requirements of Article 113(1) EPC not complied with insufficient time accorded to Appellant (Patent Proprietor) for preparing its case Refund of appeal fee (yes) Novelty and inventive step of main request (yes) New ground of opposition: not validly raised				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.676K)
T 0157/01 (Shopping Cart/KLEVER-KART) of 19.3.2003
Online on 12.09.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 19.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 7/04 G06F 17/30 G06F 17/60 G06F 19/00	Application no. 88908639.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Extension of protection conferred (yes, 3rd auxiliary request) Denial of right to be heard (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.815K)
T 0837/01 () of 8.9.2003
Online on 12.09.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 8.9.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B22C 5/12 B22C 5/04	Application no. 92109829.9
Keywords: Wesentlicher Verfahrensmangel Zustellung eines Entscheidungsentwurfs				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.682K)
T 1043/01 () of 15.7.2003
Online on 12.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F16L 37/084	Application no. 95108951.5
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit, Hauptantrag (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.274K)
T 0683/00 (Cleaning/MAASLAND) of 31.7.2003
Online on 11.09.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 31.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/00	Application no. 92203011.9
Keywords: Extension of protection (yes; main request) Added subject-matter (no; first auxiliary request) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 62.251K)
T 0385/01 () of 2.7.2003
Online on 11.09.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01L 7/08 G01L 9/06	Application no. 90912186.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Late-filed documents, filed during the second appeal proceedings (not admitted)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.138K)
T 0758/02 () of 26.8.2003
Online on 11.09.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 26.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C25F 3/02 C03C 25/06 B44C 1/22	Application no. 95909401.2
Keywords: Inventive step after amendments - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.968K)
T 0353/03 () of 25.8.2003
Online on 11.09.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 25.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H05B 6/46	Application no. 98940729.1
Keywords: Right to be heard - no (claims amended substantially) Insufficient reasoning of decision Errors in the translation of an international application may be corrected				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.661K)
T 0088/99 (Therephthalic acid/DU PONT) of 31.7.2003
Online on 11.09.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 31.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 51/487	Application no. 92300888.2
Keywords: Clarity (yes) - objections do not arise out of the amendments made Inventive step (yes) - non-obvious solution of the technical problem				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.564K)
T 0599/01 (Vekokung von Wärmetauschern/MANNESMANN) of 29.7.2003
Online on 10.09.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 29.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C10G 9/16	Application no. 94250241.0
Keywords: Ausreichende Offenbarung (ja) - Zweifel nicht anhand nachprüfbarer Fakten belegt Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - selbst bei Kombination unterschiedlicher Lehren zweier Entgegenhaltungen wird der Streitgegenstand nicht nahegelegt				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 43.045K)
T 0468/99 (Solvent composition/DIPSOL) of 16.5.2003
Online on 10.09.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 16.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23G 5/028	Application no. 94300350.9
Keywords: Admissibility of documents cited for the first time in the statement of grounds of appeal: no Admissibility of experimental evidence filed with the statement of grounds of appeal: yes Admissibility of amended requests filed during oral proceedings: yes Respondent's request to record in the minute an alleged Appellant's statement: not granted Novelty (main and first auxiliary request): yes Inventive step (main request): no - solution to technical problem suggested in closest prior art Inventive step (auxiliary request): yes - improved stability not to be expected in the light of the prior art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 54.287K)
T 0003/00 (Protease/SHIONOGI) of 11.6.2003
Online on 09.09.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 11.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/57	Application no. 91309737.4
Keywords: Main request: added matter (yes) Auxiliary request: inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.605K)
T 0352/00 () of 21.3.2003
Online on 09.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 21.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 27/108	Application no. 91103412.2
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.787K)
T 0803/01 () of 9.9.2003
Online on 09.09.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 9.9.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 63/90	Application no. 97202586.0
Keywords: Claims - clarity (yes) Novelty - purity of a polymeric compound a new element (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.296K)
T 1120/01 (Cell surface antigen/OSAKA BIOSCIENCE) of 14.7.2003
Online on 09.09.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 14.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/12	Application no. 92107060.3
Keywords: Formal allowability - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.288K)
T 0686/00 (Coated paper/ASAHI) of 24.6.2003
Online on 08.09.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21H 19/38	Application no. 94109849.3
Keywords: Main request: Inventive step - no; obvious optimization of process parameters Auxiliary request: Inventive step - yes; effect of a feature (here water content of a coating layer) not to be foreseen				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.648K)
T 1192/00 () of 30.7.2003
Online on 08.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C21B 13/00	Application no. 96922678.6
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) - nach Änderungen Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - nach Änderungen				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.271K)
T 0400/02 (Sodium silicate/AKZO) of 22.8.2003
Online on 08.09.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 22.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C01B 33/00	Application no. 96938075.7
Keywords: Procedural violation: yes, mistake of the EPO Remittal to first instance: yes Reimbursement of appeal fee: yes Order to appoint a different composition of the opposition division: no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.228K)
T 0122/99 () of 7.8.2003
Online on 08.09.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 7.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/05	Application no. 91307243.5
Keywords: Opposition grounds - lack of patentability Inventive step - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.365K)
T 0187/99 (Assay method/ORTHO) of 16.6.2003
Online on 08.09.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 16.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/53	Application no. 85300357.2
Keywords: Main request: inventive step (no) Auxiliary request: inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.132K)
T 0676/00 (Cell culture medium/CHIRON) of 26.6.2003
Online on 05.09.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 5/00	Application no. 89910564.7
Keywords: Admissibility of additional documents filed after summons to oral proceedings (no) Main request: novelty (yes) Inventive step (no) Auxiliary request 1: novelty (yes) Inventive step (no) Auxiliary request 2: clarity (no) Auxiliary request 3: inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 68.713K)
T 1097/00 (Surface cleaning/RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION) of 13.6.2003
Online on 05.09.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/26	Application no. 92304964.7
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.930K)
T 1177/00 () of 24.7.2003
Online on 05.09.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07B 17/00	Application no. 94101534.9
Keywords: Stay of proceedings on divisional patent until parent case settled - (no) Referral of question of stay to Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no) Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.835K)
T 1076/00 (Impfstoff gegen Drogen/CHILKA Ltd.) of 5.8.2003
Online on 04.09.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 5.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 39/385	Application no. 91901668.3
Keywords: Hauptantrag, Neuheit (nein) Hilfsanträge II_A und III_A, Klarheit (nein) Hilfsantrag IV_A, Klarheit, Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 57.249K)
T 0009/01 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 04.09.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E04C 2/292 B32B 3/30 B32B 15/14	Application no. 95100666.7
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.815K)
T 0255/01 (Colloidal boehmite/NORTON) of 25.6.2003
Online on 04.09.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C01F 7/02	Application no. 92104598.5
Keywords: Inventive step - no, obvious alternative				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.679K)
T 0628/00 (Robot arm construction/MAASLAND) of 22.5.2003
Online on 03.09.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/00	Application no. 94913203.9
Keywords: Extension of the subject-matter (main request and first auxiliary request Inventive step (yes - second auxiliary request)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 64.355K)
T 0785/00 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 03.09.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D01D 5/253	Application no. 93912537.3
Keywords: Reformatio in peius - Zulässigkeit der Änderungen - ja Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.748K)
T 0793/00 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 03.09.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08K 13/02	Application no. 91102007.1
Keywords: Amendments - not occasioned by grounds of opposition (main request: not allowable) Claims - clarity (main request: no, first auxiliary request: yes) Claims - interpretation (first auxiliary request) Inventive step - problem and solution (first auxiliary request: yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 56.988K)
T 0920/00 () of 16.6.2003
Online on 03.09.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 16.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 93115848.9
Keywords: Clarity of claims - yes Novelty and inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.404K)
T 0294/00 () of 28.7.2003
Online on 01.09.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 28.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 32/00	Application no. 93303930.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.776K)
T 0286/02 () of 8.7.2003
Online on 01.09.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16B 31/02 H01R 4/36 H01R 4/38	Application no. 96908267.6
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.582K)

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D 0001/01 () of 19.5.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.486K)
T 0764/00 () of 13.6.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16J 15/12	Application no. 91201511.2
Keywords: Extension of subject-matter - no Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.468K)
T 0048/01 () of 12.8.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 12.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C22F 1/04	Application no. 96810492.7
Keywords: -				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.316K)
T 0568/01 () of 29.7.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 29.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 16/40	Application no. 95106266.0
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.175K)
T 0997/01 () of 8.7.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B08B 9/08 A01J 7/02	Application no. 95937041.2
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.510K)
T 1215/02 () of 7.8.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 7.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 88/12	Application no. 97945334.7
Keywords: Inventive step, main and auxiliary requests (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.355K)
T 0108/03 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 29.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23F 21/16	Application no. 98106600.4
Keywords: Evidence of knowledge of the skilled person introduced in the proceedings by the Board Inventive step (no) Amendments - broadening of claim (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.338K)
T 0357/00 (C12-alcohol/UNILEVER) of 26.5.2003
Online on 27.08.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 26.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 93309120.9
Keywords: Novelty (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.968K)
T 1141/00 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 27.08.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01F 1/147	Application no. 93114263.2
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.842K)
T 0996/99 (Polyasparaginsäure/BASF) of 3.6.2003
Online on 27.08.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C11D 3/37	Application no. 94911940.8
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hauptantrag) - nein: Auslegung des Verwendungsanspruchs Erfinderische Tätigkeit (erster Hilfsantrag) - ja: Reinigungswirkung nicht vorhersehbar				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.066K)
T 0013/00 (Gel system/MARS) of 27.6.2003
Online on 26.08.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/05	Application no. 85309010.8
Keywords: Main request: right to priority (no) Novelty (no) Auxiliary request: right to priority (partial) Novelty (yes) - the features of a prior patent specification as a whole do not disclose a specific, novelty-destroying example Inventive step (no) - alleged advantages to which the appealing patentee refers, without offering sufficient evidence to support the comparison with the closest state of the art, cannot be taken into consideration in determining the problem underlying the invention and hence in assessing inventive step - proposed solution to the acutal problem of providing further gellable compositions, in addition to those disclosed in the closest prior art, not inventive.				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 69.108K)
T 0004/01 () of 13.6.2003
Online on 26.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23K 26/04	Application no. 96200424.8
Keywords: Novelty (main request): no Inventive step (auxiliary request): no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.087K)
T 0029/02 (Path/MAASLAND) of 27.5.2003
Online on 26.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 27.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01K 1/00	Application no. 94200147.0
Keywords: Amendments extending beyond the content of the application as filed				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 130.668K)
T 0178/02 (Mover/JF) of 18.8.2003
Online on 26.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 18.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01D 34/66	Application no. 95610030.9
Keywords: Revocation request by patent proprietor				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 17.107K)
T 0571/98 (Surgical composite/BIOCON OY) of 22.7.2003
Online on 26.08.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 31/00	Application no. 88900458.6
Keywords: Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 4 - added matter - yes: no linkage between two features in the application as filed				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.340K)
D 0007/03 () of 21.8.2003
Online on 25.08.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 21.8.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.043K)
T 0731/00 (Cleansing proteins/OCTAPHARMA) of 24.7.2003
Online on 22.08.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12P 21/00	Application no. 90917874.1
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.968K)
T 0373/02 () of 22.5.2003
Online on 22.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B32B 27/34	Application no. 92102809.8
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 60.604K)
T 0532/98 () of 18.8.2003
Online on 22.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 18.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C09D 9/00	Application no. 93117818.0
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht) - Aufgabe und Lösung - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.412K)
T 0064/00 (Insecticidal plant expression/MYCOGEN) of 8.7.2003
Online on 21.08.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/32	Application no. 89309069.6
Keywords: Main and auxiliary requests - clarity (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.562K)
T 0432/03 () of 18.8.2003
Online on 21.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 18.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47B 21/00	Application no. 95116550.5
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr (nein)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.475K)
T 0296/97 () of 24.10.2002
Online on 21.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 24.10.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/08	Application no. 87301779.2
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter - (yes) - (main request) Inventive step - (no) - (first to fourth auxiliary requests) Inventive step - (yes) - (fifth auxiliary request)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 68.028K)
T 0671/98 (Ionic conductors/MATSUSHITA) of 25.7.2003
Online on 21.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 25.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C04B 35/50	Application no. 92112158.8
Keywords: Clarity objection - overcome Novelty - yes Remittal to first instance for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.356K)
T 0446/00 (METHOD FOR PREPARING EXTRUDED FOOD PRODUCTS/NATIONAL STARCH) of 3.7.2003
Online on 20.08.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/09	Application no. 94104710.2
Keywords: Requests filed in abuse of procedure - inadmissible Late filed requests with no explanation for lateness - inadmissible Discretion to admit requests filed during oral proceedings (yes) Main and first auxiliary requests - non-allowable amendment Second auxiliary request - allowable amendment - novelty (yes) - inventive step (no) - solution obvious in the light of prior art				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 81.668K)
T 0292/01 (Proteinesplasmatiques/CENTRE REGIONAL DE TRANSFUSION SANGUINE DE … of 16.7.2003
Online on 20.08.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C07K 1/00	Application no. 89400348.2
Keywords: Extension de l'objet - (non) Suffisance de description - (oui) Nouveauté - (oui) Activité inventive - (oui) Renvoi à la première instance - (non) Remboursement de la taxe de recours - (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 73.266K)
T 1097/99 (HIV peptides/ADALTIS INC.) of 28.5.2003
Online on 20.08.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 28.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 7/00	Application no. 89400221.1
Keywords: New main request: inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.229K)
T 0265/00 (Catalyst rejuvenation/EXXONMOBIL) of 29.7.2003
Online on 19.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 29.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 1/04	Application no. 93307531.9
Keywords: All requests: inventive step (no) - obvious to try				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.023K)
T 0045/01 () of 5.6.2003
Online on 19.08.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 27/146	Application no. 90308575.1
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) could-would approach Late-filed evidence alleging inoperability - admitted Appointment of neutral expert (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.465K)
T 1216/01 () of 21.5.2003
Online on 19.08.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 27/115	Application no. 96110018.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.404K)
T 0780/01 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 18.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 25/00	Application no. 95906089.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - exclusion of hindsight				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.571K)
T 0451/98 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 18.08.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/365	Application no. 89303019.7
Keywords: Novelty - main request (no) Inventive step - first auxiliary request (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.723K)
T 0650/99 (Hydrogenierung/BASF) of 8.7.2003
Online on 18.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 29/149	Application no. 93114621.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - naheliegende Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.451K)
T 0060/00 (Value transfer system/MONDEX INTERNATIONAL LTD.) of 3.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 19/00	Application no. 92922228.9
Keywords: Withdrawal of the appeal (no) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.279K)
T 0828/00 (Blood parameters/MAASLAND) of 2.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/00	Application no. 93202948.1
Keywords: Extension of subject-matter (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.794K)
T 0939/00 () of 2.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D01H 13/14	Application no. 90104538.5
Keywords: Hauptantrag - erfinderische Tätigkeit - nein Hilfsanträge 1 bis 3 - Zulässigkeit - nein Hilfsantrag 4 - Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.007K)
T 1204/00 () of 20.5.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D04B 21/04	Application no. 90830311.8
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.889K)
T 0069/01 (Blocking means/MAASLAND) of 3.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01K 1/12	Application no. 93200521.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.098K)
T 0598/01 () of 7.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 7.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D03D 47/30	Application no. 89106042.8
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit der Erfindung und Zulässigkeit der Ansprüche (Gründe 2.) - res iudicata Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.519K)
T 0283/02 () of 9.4.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A01G 31/00	Application no. 90401840.5
Keywords: Révocation d'un retrait de l'opposition (non) Correction d'une erreur (non) Remise du cas à la première instance pour continuer d'office (non)				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 41.664K)
T 0111/99 () of 10.7.2003
Online on 14.08.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 10.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H05B 37/02	Application no. 90913745.7
Keywords: EPC Article 100(a) Opposition ground - lack of inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.973K)
T 1089/00 () of 20.5.2003
Online on 12.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F25J 3/06 F25J 1/02	Application no. 95905171.5
Keywords: Activité inventive (reconnue)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 31.375K)
T 1138/00 () of 11.6.2003
Online on 12.08.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 11.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61J 3/07	Application no. 94902877.3
Keywords: Disclosure sufficiency (yes) Amendments (supported) Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.770K)
T 0887/00 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 19/00	Application no. 95904546.9
Keywords: Novelty (yes) - proper construction of the claim Remittal to department of first instance for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.338K)
T 1107/00 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D21G 1/00	Application no. 93120500.9
Keywords: Mangelnde Ausführbarkeit (nein)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.966K)
T 0019/01 () of 24.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C08G 18/08	Application no. 86402042.5
Keywords: Activité inventive (non) - espérance de réussite raisonnable				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 36.482K)
T 0283/01 (Glass/NIKON) of 8.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03C 3/06	Application no. 96100118.7
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Lack of novelty (not proved) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 51.195K)
T 0922/01 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 27/28 G01N 27/30 C12M 1/40 G01N 27/327	Application no. 89904212.1
Keywords: Added subject-matter (no) - on the basis of the international application filed in Japanese Withdrawal of one of the oppositions Fresh ground of opposition - no comment of the patent proprietors Novelty and inventive step (yes) Remittal for adaption of the description				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 58.697K)
T 0331/02 () of 23.6.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 23.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B03B 5/60	Application no. 94112005.7
Keywords: Entscheidung über die Beschwerde Neuheit (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - rückschauende Betrachtungsweise				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.027K)
T 0604/02 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A21B 3/04	Application no. 98102565.3
Keywords: Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.932K)
T 0268/99 () of 7.5.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 23/78	Application no. 92103702.4
Keywords: Novelty - (no) Disclaimer - contradiction to the original disclosure - not acceptable under Article 123(2) EPC, no reason to suspend the proceedings until decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in cases G 0001/03 and G 0002/03				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.808K)
T 0916/99 (Scale dissolution/EXXONMOBIL) of 18.7.2003
Online on 11.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 18.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E21B 37/06	Application no. 95200809.2
Keywords: Objections leading to refusal overcome Remittal for further prosecuton				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.860K)
T 0706/00 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E04B 1/94 C09K 21/06	Application no. 93101699.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - naheliegende Kombination bekannter Merkmale Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.803K)
T 0329/01 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B43L 19/00	Application no. 92916164.4
Keywords: Extension beyond the content of the application as filed, auxiliary requests 1, 5 to 7, 11 and 13 (no) Inventive step, main request, auxiliary requests 1, 1a, 2 to 4, 5, 5a, 6, 6a, 7, 7a, 8 to 11, 11a, 12, 13, 13a, 14 (no) Late filed auxiliary requests 4a, 4b (not admitted)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.817K)
T 0422/01 () of 2.7.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 11/02	Application no. 94109310.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no) - obvious to try				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.062K)
T 1093/01 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B22D 11/10 B22D 11/12	Application no. 97100231.6
Keywords: Activité inventive (confirmée)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 24.484K)
T 0038/02 () of 5.6.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 49/06	Application no. 91305427.6
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Novelty - yes Inventive step - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.915K)
T 0842/02 () of 4.8.2003
Online on 08.08.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 4.8.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G08G 05/06	Application no. 97905122.4
Keywords: -				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.715K)
T 0488/00 () of 29.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 29.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/04	Application no. 93103140.5
Keywords: Clarity and support in the description (yes) Allowability of amendments (yes) Inventive step (yes - after amendment)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.521K)
T 0527/00 (POP control/THOMSON) of 19.11.2002
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 19.11.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/44 H04N 5/262	Application no. 92122127.1
Keywords: Novelty - main request (no) Added subject-matter - first auxiliary request (yes) Clarity - second auxiliary request (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.939K)
T 0724/00 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 14/34	Application no. 93308579.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.976K)
T 0017/01 () of 10.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 10.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E01C 7/22	Application no. 95902030.6
Keywords: Neuheit - verneint				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.759K)
T 0244/01 ("Budesonid-Lösungen/DR. FALK") of 13.6.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 9/08	Application no. 95942642.0
Keywords: Hauptantrag: teilweise prioritätsgestützt, Neuheit (ja) - geltend gemachte öffentliche Vorbenutzung einer Suspension nicht neuheitsschädlich für eine Lösung mit gleicher qualitativer Zusammensetzung; erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - stabile Budesonid Lösungen für die rektale Anwendung sind das Ergebnis einer naheliegenden Kombination der Lehren des Standes der Technik Hilsanträge I und II: Prioritätsanspruch ungültig; erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - beanspruchter Rektalschaum teilt das Schicksal der Lösungen gemäß Hauptantrag Hilfsantrag III: Vertoß gegen Artikel 83 Hilsantrag IV: Vertoß gegen Artikel 84 Hilfsantrag V: Prioritätsanspruch gültig; erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - teilt in dieser Hinsicht das Schicksal des Hauptantrags				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 81.608K)
T 0357/01 () of 14.4.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 14.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/00	Application no. 93303937.2
Keywords: Subject-matter going beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.451K)
T 0390/01 () of 11.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 11.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F41J 5/12 F41G 3/26 G01S 5/16	Application no. 92114108.1
Keywords: Einstellung des Beschwerdeverfahrens				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 17.255K)
T 0095/02 () of 12.6.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A47L 13/20	Application no. 94926915.3
Keywords: Neue offenkundige Vorbenutzung - Stand der Technik nach Artikel 54(2) EPÜ (nein) Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.281K)
T 1103/02 () of 14.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03B 33/07	Application no. 97115580.9
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.316K)
T 1219/02 () of 14.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03B 1/00	Application no. 97117762.1
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.073K)
T 0149/03 () of 14.7.2003
Online on 07.08.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B05B 1/18	Application no. 95112664.8
Keywords: Widerruf des Patents auf Antrag des Patentinhabers				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 15.673K)
T 0697/00 () of 27.3.2003
Online on 06.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41J 2/045	Application no. 95108677.6
Keywords: Novelty, inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.162K)
T 1020/98 (Safener/BAYER) of 27.6.2003
Online on 06.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 69/712	Application no. 93112074.5
Keywords: Deutlichkeit (ja) - komplexer Anspruch nicht undeutlich - zumutbarer Zeitaufwand - Markush-Formel - hierarchischer Aufbau der Substituentendefinitionen Knappheit (ja) - Markush-Formel knappste Fassung einer chemischen Verbindungsklasse - mühelosere Durchführbarkeit der Sachprüfung nicht bestimmend für Inhalt eines unabhängigen Anspruchs				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 46.858K)
T 1020/98 (Safener/BAYER) of 27.6.2003
Online on 06.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 69/712	Application no. 93112074.5
Keywords: Deutlichkeit (ja) - komplexer Anspruch nicht undeutlich - zumutbarer Zeitaufwand - Markush-Formel - hierarchischer Aufbau der Substituentendefinitionen Knappheit (ja) - Markush-Formel knappste Fassung einer chemischen Verbindungsklasse - mühelosere Durchführbarkeit der Sachprüfung nicht bestimmend für Inhalt eines unabhängigen Anspruchs				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 43.497K)
T 1020/98 (Safeners/BAYER) of 27.6.2003
Online on 06.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 69/712	Application no. 93112074.5
Keywords: Clarity (yes) - complex claim not unclear - within reasonable time - Markush formula - hierarchical structure of substituent definitions Conciseness (yes) - Markush formula the most concise formulation of a class of chemical compounds - greater ease of substantive examination not determinative of the content of an independent claim				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 61.752K)
T 1020/98 (Phytoprotecteur/BAYER) of 27.6.2003
Online on 06.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 69/712	Application no. 93112074.5
Keywords: Clarté (oui) - revendication complexe non obscure - somme de temps raisonnable - formule de Markush - structure hiérarchisée des définitions des substituants Concision (oui) - formule de Markush comme formulation la plus concise d'une classe de composés chimiques - exécution plus aisée de l'examen quant au fond non déterminante pour le contenu d'une revendication indépendante"				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 48.824K)
T 0829/00 (4-Aminodiphenylamine/FLEXSYS) of 27.5.2003
Online on 05.08.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 27.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 209/02	Application no. 92914179.4
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - non obvious solution Remittal to the first instance for adapting the description (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.155K)
T 0367/01 (Improved remote control/EDICO) of 30.7.2003
Online on 05.08.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/445	Application no. 92105772.5
Keywords: Inventive step - main and first auxiliary requests (no) Late filed amendments - second and third auxiliary requests (not admitted) Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (not allowed)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.912K)
T 0176/02 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 05.08.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G02C 1/02	Application no. 95935500.9
Keywords: Accessibilité d'une publication au public (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 37.487K)
T 0088/03 () of 16.7.2003
Online on 05.08.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F27D 23/02 F27D 1/16 B08B 7/00 F27D 1/12	Application no. 00203711.7
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.390K)
T 0187/00 () of 3.4.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 3.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B41F 33/00	Application no. 94111829.1
Keywords: Neuheit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 35.092K)
T 0309/00 () of 23.5.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 23.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 3/18	Application no. 92920904.7
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Claim - clarity (yes) Disclosure - sufficiency - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step (yes) Remittal - (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 67.868K)
T 0696/00 () of 13.5.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 13.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41M 5/38	Application no. 94914836.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.693K)
T 0037/01 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 77/00	Application no. 94915412.4
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 58.858K)
T 0351/01 (Tissue Factor Protein/GENENTECH) of 2.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 2.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/12	Application no. 88301190.0
Keywords: Main request - entitlement to priority - no Main request - novelty - no Auxiliary request - formal admissibility - yes Auxiliary request - sufficiency of disclosure - yes Auxiliary request - priority - yes Auxiliary request - novelty - inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 65.651K)
T 0724/01 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 65/00	Application no. 92306664.1
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.980K)
T 1155/02 (Dishwashing/DEEAY) of 16.6.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 16.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 11/00	Application no. 97950361.2
Keywords: Re-establishment of rights (no) - all due care not taken Appeal deemed not filed - reimbursement or appeal fee (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.931K)
T 0049/03 () of 22.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C01B 37/04	Application no. 96937904.9
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.609K)
T 0309/03 (Berichtigung/3M) of 30.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 7/04	Application no. 96945229.1
Keywords: Fehlende Beschwerdebegründung Berichtigung der Beschwerdeschrift - (verneint) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - (verneint)				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.371K)
T 0309/03 (Correction/3M) of 30.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 7/04	Application no. 96945229.1
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds Correction of notice of appeal - (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.282K)
T 0309/03 (Correction/3M) of 30.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 7/04	Application no. 96945229.1
Keywords: Missing Statement of Grounds Correction of Notice of Appeal - (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.327K)
T 0309/03 (Correction/3M) of 30.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 7/04	Application no. 96945229.1
Keywords: Absence de mémoire exposant les motifs du recours Rectification de l'acte de recours - (non) Remboursement de la taxe de recours - (non)				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 19.488K)
W 0003/02 (Beeinflussung von Kollagen/WIELAND) of 31.7.2003
Online on 04.08.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 31.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: Aussetzung des Erteilungsverfahrens in der regionalen Phase - keine Erstreckung auf Widerspruchsverfahren vor der Bk Einheitlichkeit (nein): sechs Gruppen von Erfindungen, a posteriori Analyse				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 43.371K)
T 0694/00 (Verzicht auf das Patent) of 9.7.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B23D 37/00	Application no. 92118319.0
Keywords: Verzicht auf das Patent im Einspruchsbeschwerdeverfahren ohne Vorlage von Anträgen steht einem Antrag auf Widerruf des Patents gleich				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 18.078K)
T 0801/00 () of 25.6.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 23/223	Application no. 91110658.1
Keywords: Admissibilty of the appeal (yes) Late filed documents (not admitted)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.297K)
T 0097/01 () of 11.7.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 11.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B29C 49/04	Application no. 95910409.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.718K)
T 0386/01 (Verzicht auf das Patent/BESTA) of 24.7.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 24.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01G 11/00	Application no. 96938959.2
Keywords: Verzicht auf das Patent im Einspruchsverfahren - nein Auslegung der Verzichtserklärung als Antrag auf Widerruf - nein				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.258K)
T 1261/01 () of 7.7.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 7.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A44B 18/00	Application no. 94113959.4
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.488K)
T 0106/03 () of 11.7.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 11.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 63/66	Application no. 97118059.1
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (main request) - yes Inventive step (first and second auxiliary request) - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.588K)
T 0689/98 () of 2.4.2003
Online on 01.08.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 7/13	Application no. 93913170.2
Keywords: Modifications - extension de l'objet de la demande (non) Activité inventive - (oui) - problème et solution				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 112.013K)

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T 0423/00 () of 4.4.2003
Online on 31.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 92925155.1
Keywords: Clarity (main request) (no) Auxiliary request (yes) Allowability amendments (main request) (no), (auxiliary request) (yes) Novelty (claim 1, auxiliary request) (yes, in respect of the two documents considered in the decision under appeal) Remittal to first instance (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 50.758K)
T 0943/00 () of 31.7.2003
Online on 31.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 31.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 297/08	Application no. 92300907.0
Keywords: Admissibility of the main request (claims as granted) (yes) Disclosure - sufficiency (no conditions for method of measurement) (yes) Disclosure - sufficiency (inaccessability of a parameter in principle) (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 57.780K)
T 0269/01 () of 4.6.2003
Online on 31.07.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B41F 13/18	Application no. 96106254.4
Keywords: Neuheit (nein)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.934K)
T 0238/98 (Superconductor/TOSHIBA) of 7.5.2003
Online on 31.07.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C04B 35/00	Application no. 89103220.3
Keywords: Public availability of pre-print (no) - not proven beyond any reasonable doubt				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 65.285K)
T 1072/98 (Refrigerator oil/IDEMITSU KOSAN) of 3.6.2003
Online on 31.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10M 169/04	Application no. 90916377.6
Keywords: Late-filed documents - admitted (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) - no relevant evidence to the contrary Inventive step (yes) - non obvious solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.471K)
T 0047/00 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 30.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03F 7/033	Application no. 94112159.2
Keywords: Main request - novelty and inventive step (no) Auxiliary request - novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.877K)
T 0895/02 () of 28.7.2003
Online on 30.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 28.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01Q 1/24 H04B 1/38 H01Q 9/04	Application no. 98933454.5
Keywords: Fehlende Beschwerdebegründung				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 14.400K)
T 0037/00 (Streichen einer Papierbahn/VOITH) of 6.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 6.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D21H 25/06	Application no. 94111844.0
Keywords: Verspätetes Vorbringen einer eigenen offenkundigen Vorbenutzung durch die Einsprechende - nicht zulässig Neuheit (ja) - ein aus einer Skizze ausgemessener Abstand gehört nicht zum Stand der Technik Hauptantrag: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - fachmännische Optimierung eines Parameters Hilfsantrag: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) - zusätzliches Merkmal aus dem Stand der Technik bekannt Antrag auf Gelegenheit zur Vorlage weiterer Beweismittel - nicht stattzugeben, wenn dafür bereits ein Anlaß vorhanden war und ausreichend Gelegenheit bestand.				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 39.726K)
T 0107/00 (Taxo-diterpenoids/SCRIPPS RESEARCH) of 15.4.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 15.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 305/14	Application no. 95907425.3
Keywords: Main, first and second auxiliary request - clarity (no) - indefinite structural feature not rendered clear by functional features expressing the result to be achieved Non-formalized request(s) - not admitted into proceedings				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.179K)
T 1042/00 () of 6.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 6.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 27/06	Application no. 93306844.7
Keywords: Late filed request (not admitted) Prior art documents introduced by the Board				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.948K)
T 1156/00 () of 15.7.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H03K 19/003	Application no. 96113797.3
Keywords: -				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 28.439K)
T 1173/00 (Transformator mit Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter für Lokomotive) of 5.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01F 36/00	Application no. 93115499.1
Keywords: Vollständige Offenbarung (nein) Ausführbarkeit der innewohnenden technischen Lehre am Prioritätstag (nein)				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 42.308K)
T 1173/00 (Transformator mit Hochtemperatur-Supraleiter für Lokomotive) of 5.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01F 36/00	Application no. 93115499.1
Keywords: Vollständige Offenbarung (nein) Ausführbarkeit der innewohnenden technischen Lehre am Prioritätstag (nein)				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 47.010K)
T 1173/00 (Transformer with high-temperature superconductor for locomotives) of 5.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01F 36/00	Application no. 93115499.1
Keywords: Sufficient disclosure (no) Ability of the inherent technical teaching to be carried out on the date of priority (no)				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.861K)
T 1173/00 (Transformateur supraconducteur à haute température pour locomotives) of 5.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01F 36/00	Application no. 93115499.1
Keywords: Exposé suffisant (non) Possibilité de réaliser l'enseignement technique inhérent à la date de priorité (non)				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 51.534K)
T 0433/01 () of 4.6.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08L 23/12	Application no. 95102636.8
Keywords: Durch Merkmalskombination gebildete neue Bereichsgrenze nicht zulässig In der mündlichen Verhandlung eingereichte Ansprüche nicht zugelassen				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 49.603K)
T 0609/01 (Funkzellenausleutchtung/DETECON) of 8.7.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H04Q 7/36 H04H 3/00	Application no. 95903800.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.715K)
T 1124/01 () of 8.7.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/373	Application no. 96903414.9
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.404K)
T 1177/97 (Translating natural languages/SYSTRAN) of 9.7.2002
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 9.7.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 15/38	Application no. 87400004.5
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Problem-and-solution approach: treatment of non-technical aspects Admissibility of late-filed documents (no) Different apportionment of costs (no)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.653K)
T 0794/99 (Anordnung zur Erfassung eines Messparameters der Herzaktivität/St. … of 22.7.2003
Online on 29.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61N 1/365	Application no. 91917484.7
Keywords: Antrag der Patentinhaberin auf Widerruf des Patents keine gebilligte Fassung des Patents				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 16.005K)
T 0142/00 () of 9.5.2003
Online on 28.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 9.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/36	Application no. 91302941.9
Keywords: Lack of clarity and support (yes - main request) Extension of protection (yes - first auxiliary request) Lack of clarity (yes - second auxiliary request) Extension of protection (yes - third auxiliary request) Added subject-matter (no - fourth auxiliary request) Novelty and inventive step (yes - fourth auxiliary request)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 68.995K)
T 0611/99 () of 11.7.2003
Online on 28.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 11.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 7/10	Application no. 89302812.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.677K)
T 0984/00 (Ti-plasmid vectors/MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT) of 18.6.2002
Online on 25.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 18.6.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/00	Application no. 88105808.5
Keywords: Added subject-matter - no Inventive step - yes Clarity - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.429K)
T 1072/00 (Borrelia Burgdorferi/MIKROGEN) of 1.7.2003
Online on 25.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07K 14/00	Application no. 91902687.2
Keywords: Hauptantrag, Neuheit (nein) Hilfsantrag , Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 1.382M)
T 0050/01 (Image Processing/CANON) of 9.5.2003
Online on 25.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 9.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 1/40	Application no. 96200452.9
Keywords: Inventive step (main and auxiliary requests, no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.800K)
T 0088/01 () of 8.7.2003
Online on 25.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 8.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G08C 17/00	Application no. 88113180.9
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) ex post facto analysis				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.275K)
T 0645/02 (Antikörper/EBERHARD-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT) of 16.7.2003
Online on 25.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07K 16/28	Application no. 96118320.9
Keywords: Hauptantrag, Neuheit (nein) Hilfsantrag, Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.852K)
T 0368/00 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 24.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 5/00	Application no. 89910765.0
Keywords: Clarity (yes) Sufficiency (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.814K)
T 0659/00 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 24.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H02K 3/493	Application no. 90305417.9
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Known alternative element				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.112K)
T 0825/00 () of 11.7.2003
Online on 24.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 11.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H02K 15/095	Application no. 94102700.5
Keywords: Appellant adversely affected by decision under appeal (yes) Added subject-matter (no) Novelty, inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.956K)
T 0510/99 (Aufheller/CIBA) of 24.4.2003
Online on 24.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 24.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C09B 67/46	Application no. 90103750.7
Keywords: Reformatio in peius (nein) - keine Schlechterstellung Kammerzusammensetzung aus 3 Mitgliedern (ja) - fehlerhafter maschineller Ausdruck der angefochtenen Entscheidung Neuheit (ja) - allgemeine Offenbarung erschließt nicht spezielles Merkmal Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - nächster Stand der Technik - nicht nahegelegte Lösung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 34.376K)
T 0991/00 () of 7.5.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 45/03	Application no. 93901277.9
Keywords: Substantial procedural violation (no) Extension (no) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty, inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.354K)
T 0392/01 () of 30.5.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 30.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B44C 5/04	Application no. 95903878.7
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.479K)
T 0462/01 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B67D 5/378 B01D 53/22	Application no. 95900870.7
Keywords: Priority - same invention (yes) Inventive step (no) Closure of the debate - opportunity to file an amended request (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.599K)
T 0769/01 () of 17.7.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 17.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C22C 29/12	Application no. 95113512.8
Keywords: Mangelnde Klarheit (nein)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.280K)
T 0939/01 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B21D 26/02	Application no. 95112736.4
Keywords: Einspruchsgründe - unzureichende Offenbarung (verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.096K)
T 0166/02 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01M 11/02	Application no. 93310343.4
Keywords: Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.604K)
T 0183/02 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F02F 1/42	Application no. 96118172.4
Keywords: Hauptantrag - Änderungen - Erweiterung (bejaht) Hilfsantrag 1 - Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 42.405K)
T 0247/02 () of 12.6.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01L 9/02	Application no. 99830065.1
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.493K)
T 0558/02 () of 23.7.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 23.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F02B 75/28	Application no. 95934001.9
Keywords: Inadmissibility of a request aimed at the revision of a final decision taken by a Board of Appeal				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 16.558K)
T 1187/02 () of 16.7.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04Q 7/38	Application no. 99911255.0
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.520K)
T 0727/99 (Operating a slurry bubble column/EXXONMOBIL) of 4.4.2003
Online on 23.07.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 8/22	Application no. 91302710.8
Keywords: Amendments - isolated features not disclosed in claimed combination Sufficiency of disclosure - yes, no undue burden Inventive step - yes, prejudice in the art Reformatio in peius - allowed G 0001/99 applied				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 60.070K)
D 0016/02 () of 16.7.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 16.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 18.879K)
T 0657/00 () of 22.7.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 22.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C23C 8/10	Application no. 96109446.3
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 38.042K)
T 0871/00 () of 7.3.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 7.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 23/495	Application no. 95111686.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja - nach Änderung der Ansprüche)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.464K)
T 1008/96 () of 25.6.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F24C 15/02	Application no. 88830024.1
Keywords: Late-filed ground for opposition - exercise of discretion of the opposition division correct Priority not valid because applicant is not entitled Novelty - public prior use (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.951K)
T 0303/99 () of 4.6.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 5/00	Application no. 92915613.1
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.728K)
W 0017/02 (Widerspruch - unzulässig - keine Begründung.) of 15.7.2003
Online on 22.07.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 31/519	Application no. -
Keywords: Widerspruchsbegründung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 18.595K)
T 0237/00 () of 4.7.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 4.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 11/04	Application no. 92117842.2
Keywords: Inventive step - ex post facto analysis				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.905K)
T 0937/00 () of 12.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03B 27/53 G03F 9/00 G03F 7/20	Application no. 92302512.6
Keywords: Multiple independent claims filed in response to the notice of opposition and subsequent amendments Apportionment of costs (yes)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.269K)
T 0128/01 () of 11.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 11.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 21/03 B01L 3/08	Application no. 96911156.6
Keywords: Novelty and inventive step of claim 1 - yes Sufficiency - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.148K)
T 0272/01 () of 23.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 23.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A46B 9/04	Application no. 93925122.9
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.551K)
T 0409/01 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/316	Application no. 94118479.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.423K)
T 0917/01 () of 17.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 17.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E04B 7/16 E06B 7/086 F24F 13/15	Application no. 96928465.2
Keywords: Neuheit (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 21.754K)
T 1029/01 () of 22.5.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F23C 6/04 F23L 7/100	Application no. 94118073.9
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - yes (main request) Inventive step - yes (main request)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.568K)
T 0709/02 (Inadmissible appeal/BOLTON) of 21.7.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 21.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B05B 11/06	Application no. 94913771.5
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.722K)
T 0308/99 (Hyaluronan/BIOMATRIX) of 2.6.2003
Online on 21.07.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 2.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 47/36	Application no. 86306046.3
Keywords: Novelty (yes): claimed use reflects a newly discovered technical effect Inventive step (no): claimed use is based on a thoroughly obvious property of known substances; slightly enhanced effects associated with the claimed use in comparision with substances used in the state of the art emerge from obvious tests - no indication of an inventive step				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 57.740K)
T 0104/99 () of 18.7.2003
Online on 18.07.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 18.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 71/02	Application no. 92309154.0
Keywords: Taking of evidence - witnesses				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 18.952K)
T 0897/99 () of 12.6.2003
Online on 18.07.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 12.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 7/50	Application no. 90907305.8
Keywords: Main request - inventive step no: obvious alternative over the prior art teaching First to fourth auxiliary requests: idem				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.389K)
T 1079/01 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 17.07.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D06P 5/00	Application no. 96901805.0
Keywords: Claims - clarity (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.466K)
T 0058/00 (Hepatic growth factor/MITSUBISHI) of 3.2.2003
Online on 16.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 3.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 14/00	Application no. 90115397.3
Keywords: Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Enabling disclosure - (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.025K)
T 1169/00 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 16.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D05B 85/02	Application no. 92909648.5
Keywords: Opposition - admissible (yes) Prior art documents filed during appeal proceedings - admissible (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Clarity (yes) Inventive step (yes, third auxiliary request)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 59.382K)
T 0414/02 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 16.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 212/08	Application no. 96106290.8
Keywords: Amendments - broadening of claim (first auxiliary request: yes; second auxiliary request: no) Novelty (main request and second auxiliary request: yes) Inventive step - problem and solution (main request: no; second auxiliary request: yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 54.693K)
W 0006/03 (Plant compositions/INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO) of 25.6.2003
Online on 16.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 25.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 35/78	Application no. -
Keywords: Lack of unity a priori - (partially no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.065K)
W 0005/99 (Endothelin-Konjugate/SCHERING AG) of 3.7.2003
Online on 16.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 51/08	Application no. -
Keywords: Nicht Einheitlichkeit a posteriori (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.167K)
T 0214/01 (Teletext receiver/EDICO) of 7.3.2003
Online on 15.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 7.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/087	Application no. 92104147.1
Keywords: Obligation to give reasons for not considering allegedly important evidence Problem-solution approach: treatment of non-technical aspects Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.056K)
T 1130/01 () of 13.5.2003
Online on 15.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 13.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 17/04	Application no. 95118658.4
Keywords: Inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.049K)
T 0001/02 () of 9.7.2003
Online on 15.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 9.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61J 17/00	Application no. 95934140.5
Keywords: Sufficient disclosure (yes) Novelty, inventive step (yes,after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.292K)
T 0778/02 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 15.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02F 1/1339	Application no. 94305406.4
Keywords: Interpretation of claim wording for question of novelty Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.594K)
T 0075/99 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 15.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01R 33/00	Application no. 88104077.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.674K)
T 0062/01 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H03M 7/30	Application no. 93913500.0
Keywords: Novelty (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.869K)
T 0280/01 () of 1.7.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 1.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H02P 6/08	Application no. 95924636.4
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no) after amendment Inventive step (yes) after amendment				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.982K)
T 0347/01 () of 29.4.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 29.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 16/02 B60R 21/32	Application no. 96943865.4
Keywords: Neuheit (Hauptantrag) - (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hauptantrag) - (verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hilfsantrag) - (bejaht) Verspätet vorgebrachte Tatsachen und Beweismittel - nicht berücksichtigt				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.483K)
T 0526/01 () of 22.5.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16B 23/00	Application no. 92202385.8
Keywords: Novelty - yes (all requests) Inventive step - no (all requests)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.061K)
T 0481/02 () of 20.5.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B66B 25/00	Application no. 97943393.5
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.182K)
T 1101/02 () of 14.7.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.7.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 22/12	Application no. 96942834.1
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.330K)
T 1144/02 () of 27.6.2003
Online on 14.07.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04M 3/22 H04M 3/42	Application no. 98961925.9
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.326K)
T 1058/00 () of 30.6.2003
Online on 11.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 30.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 18/48	Application no. 91911862.0
Keywords: Claims - clarity (yes) Amendments - agreed by Boards of Appeal				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.655K)
T 1175/00 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 11.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B22D 11/10 B22D 11/12	Application no. 92102888.2
Keywords: Activité inventive (confirmée)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 26.228K)
W 0008/03 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 11.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 10/02	Application no. -
Keywords: Oligomerisation and polymerisation - different technical concept (yes) Unity of invention (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 76.115K)
T 0521/00 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 10.07.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B03C 3/38	Application no. 93904467.3
Keywords: Admissibility of opposition (yes) Reimbursement of the appeal fee (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.174K)
T 0122/02 () of 23.6.2003
Online on 10.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 23.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A41C 3/14	Application no. 00200747.4
Keywords: Appeal fee not paid within time limit Re-establishment of rights - request refused All due care required by the circumstances - (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.042K)
T 0525/02 () of 7.7.2003
Online on 10.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 7.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 5/058	Application no. 98910587.9
Keywords: Neuheit, Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja, nach Änderung)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 20.995K)
T 0107/99 () of 19.2.2003
Online on 10.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 19.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G07F 7/08	Application no. 90402846.1
Keywords: Activité inventive (rejeté)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 35.214K)
T 0146/99 (Device for combined cardiac pacing and defibrillation/Ventritex, Inc … of 27.6.2003
Online on 10.07.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 27.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/368	Application no. 90303812.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.652K)
T 0051/00 () of 26.3.2003
Online on 09.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 26.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 9/12	Application no. 90916868.4
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) - problem and solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.896K)
T 0692/00 (Bar Coater/VALMET) of 13.5.2003
Online on 09.07.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 13.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21H 23/58	Application no. 93850110.3
Keywords: All requests: Admissibility of amendments - yes; ambiguity not created by amendments Main request and first auxiliary request: Novelty - no Second and third auxiliary request: Inventive step - no; reformulation of the technical problem to be solved in view of the closest prior art; solution - obvious to try Oral proceedings: attendance - announcement of a party (having requested oral proceedings) shortly before the appointed date that it may or may not attend oral proceedings amounts to an abuse of procedure				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.790K)
T 0978/00 () of 23.5.2003
Online on 09.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 23.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 29/08	Application no. 92903559.0
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.878K)
T 1244/01 () of 3.7.2003
Online on 09.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61B 17/60	Application no. 93912539.9
Keywords: Neuheit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 19.835K)
T 0762/98 (Cutinase composition/GENENCOR) of 13.2.2003
Online on 09.07.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 13.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386	Application no. 88905333.6
Keywords: Main request: inadmissible amendment (Article 123(2) EPC) First and second auxiliary requests: inventive step - no Third auxiliary request: inadmissible amendments (Article 123(2) EPC) Fourth auxiliary request: sufficiency of disclosure (Article 83 EPC) - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 51.255K)
T 1179/00 () of 3.7.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H01T 13/04	Application no. 91402410.4
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 22.832K)
T 0181/01 (Storage of materials/INHALE) of 27.2.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 27.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 9/96	Application no. 90301561.8
Keywords: Novelty -yes, no absolute proof to the contrary Inventive step - no, obvious alternative within reach of normal experimentation by a person skilled in the art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.935K)
T 0657/01 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 3/22	Application no. 93200971.5
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) - inescapable Article 123(2), (3) trap (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.903K)
T 0140/02 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F02D 41/24	Application no. 91105855.0
Keywords: Neuheit - (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 39.680K)
T 0942/02 () of 11.6.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 11.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F01N 3/32	Application no. 97916429.0
Keywords: Neuheit - bejaht Erfinderische Tätigkeit - bejaht				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 23.894K)
T 0117/03 () of 10.6.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 10.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 67/02	Application no. 89118593.6
Keywords: Wrong claim 1 in Druckexemplar of interlocutory decision Correction not within the competence of formalities officers Substantial procedural violation (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.789K)
T 0820/99 (Urethane/BAYER) of 19.5.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08G 18/65	Application no. 92114287.3
Keywords: Unzulässige Änderung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 23.730K)
T 1005/99 (Kraftstoffadditiv/BASF) of 24.6.2003
Online on 08.07.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C10L 1/22	Application no. 94911134.8
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) - nicht vorhersehbarer Effekt eines Kombinationsprodukts				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.115K)
T 0066/01 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65D 77/06	Application no. 95117194.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.097K)
T 0788/01 () of 13.6.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 77/00	Application no. 95909313.9
Keywords: Parties to appeal - opponent Novelty, inventive step (yes) Apportionment of costs (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.031K)
T 0576/02 () of 27.3.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A22C 21/06	Application no. 98200479.8
Keywords: Priority: main request (no), auxiliary request (yes), novelty (yes) Inventive step: main request (no), auxiliary request (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.443K)
T 0762/02 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A46B 7/06	Application no. 99203321.7
Keywords: Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.301K)
T 0582/99 (Salt product/HITAVEITA SUDURNESJA) of 22.5.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/237	Application no. 93907821.8
Keywords: Main request - novelty - no: homogeneity feature not distinguishable from the prior art Auxiliary request - remittal to the first instance - shift of invention from the product to the process Reimbursement of appeal fee - no: not equitable				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.690K)
T 0814/99 (Peptide aldehyde/PROCTER & GAMBLE) of 19.3.2003
Online on 07.07.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 19.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386	Application no. 92870121.8
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - technical solution not suggested in the prior art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.660K)
T 0910/00 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 04.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03B 27/53	Application no. 92301476.5
Keywords: Inventive step (appellant's main and first auxiliary requests: no; second auxiliary request: yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.889K)
T 0681/02 () of 5.6.2003
Online on 04.07.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 5.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01D 5/14 G01D 3/028	Application no. 96111581.3
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Zulässigkeit eines in der mündlichen Verhandlung eingereichten Hilfsantrags (nein): Versäumung der im Ladungsbescheid gesetzten Frist, nicht durch Änderung des Sachverhalts bedingt, nicht recherchiert, nicht klar gewährbar, keine triftigen Gründe für späte Einreichung				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 36.098K)
T 0689/00 () of 7.4.2003
Online on 03.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 92115530.5
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments - yes Novelty - yes Remittal to the first instance - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.302K)
T 0884/00 () of 28.4.2003
Online on 03.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 28.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 93110555.5
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Ansprüche - ja Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.475K)
T 1276/01 () of 3.7.2003
Online on 03.07.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 3.7.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 23/367	Application no. 97810047.7
Keywords: Berichtigung (erlaubt) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja, nach Änderung)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.871K)
T 0601/98 () of 30.6.2003
Online on 03.07.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 30.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/32	Application no. 88308984.9
Keywords: Basis of decision - patentee (non agreement of)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.008K)
T 0681/00 (Siloxanes/GIVAUDAN) of 26.3.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 26.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07F 7/08	Application no. 92909392.0
Keywords: Late filed evidence (not admitted) - lack of relevance Main request: inventive step (no) - improper comparison - reformulation of problem - obvious solution Auxiliary request: clarity (no) - arising from amendment - inconsistent features Apportionment of costs (no) - late filed evidence not admitted				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.133K)
T 0753/00 (Production of proteins/B.R. CENTRE LIMITED, et al) of 2.6.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 2.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 15/00	Application no. 91914066.5
Keywords: Main request - inventive step (no) Auxiliary requests - allowability of amendments (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.439K)
T 0596/01 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B27N 3/00	Application no. 92902653.2
Keywords: Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main and first auxiliary requests (no) Non-admittance of second auxiliary request filed during the oral proceedings				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.402K)
T 0798/01 () of 9.5.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 9.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D21F 1/00	Application no. 94307700.8
Keywords: Correction of named appellant (allowed) Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.809K)
T 1205/02 () of 26.6.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61F 15/00	Application no. 94460015.4
Keywords: Retrait du recours Remboursement de la taxe de recours (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 14.910K)
T 0981/98 (Morpholin/LENZING) of 8.5.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07D 295/02	Application no. 96926960.4
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (nein) - keine verallgemeinerungsfähige technische Lehre - unzumutbarer Aufwand beim Ausführen der Erfindung im gesamten beanspruchten Bereich - Forschungsprogramm				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.562K)
T 0919/99 (Neonatal hematopoietic stem cells/PHARMASTEM THERAPEUTICS) of 7.4.2003
Online on 02.07.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 35/14	Application no. 89900042.6
Keywords: Sole request: novelty (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.285K)
T 0751/00 (Polyol fatty acid esters/PROCTER & GAMBLE) of 21.5.2003
Online on 01.07.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 13/06	Application no. 91916765.0
Keywords: Added subject-matter; extension of the scope of protection - no Clarity - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - yes Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.071K)
T 0927/01 () of 20.6.2003
Online on 01.07.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 20.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 5/158	Application no. 94930390.3
Keywords: Novelty and inventive step (yes, after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.657K)
T 1265/01 (Compositions comprising lysine/Rath, Matthias, Dr. med.) of 26.6.2003
Online on 01.07.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 26.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/195	Application no. 97304994.3
Keywords: The condition set in point (e) of claim 1 finds no basis in the originally filed application				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.605K)
T 1178/02 () of 30.6.2003
Online on 01.07.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 30.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC D04B 21/00	Application no. 94930480.2
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.569K)

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T 0314/00 () of 21.3.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 21.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23H 7/04	Application no. 92106430.9
Keywords: New ground of opposition (not admitted) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.977K)
T 0861/00 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01R 13/642	Application no. 91110221.8
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.478K)
T 1100/00 () of 23.6.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 23.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 16/00	Application no. 93300880.7
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.911K)
T 0310/01 () of 7.4.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 2/04	Application no. 94402283.9
Keywords: Main and first auxiliary request: inventive step (no) - obvious modification Second auxiliary request: amendments - allowable, sufficiency of disclosure (yes), inventive step (yes): non-obvious modification				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.965K)
T 0179/02 () of 19.5.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A41D 13/00	Application no. 95905560.9
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Apportionment of costs (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.195K)
T 0539/99 (Hydrotreating/SHELL) of 4.4.2003
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10G 49/00	Application no. 93200165.4
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (no) - reformulation of the technical problem addressed in the patent in suit in less ambitious terms				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.348K)
T 0599/99 (Seamless capsules/WARNER-LAMBERT) of 18.12.2002
Online on 30.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 18.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 2/04	Application no. 96903724.1
Keywords: Novelty: yes, after amendment Inventive step: yes, after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.126K)
T 0098/00 (Refrigerating system/MATSUSHITA) of 18.3.2003
Online on 27.06.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10M 105/38	Application no. 92901898.4
Keywords: Main request: inventive step (no) - obvious solution in view of the closest state of the art and common general knowledge First auxiliary request: extension of the protection conferred (yes) - Article 69 EPC not relevant for interpreting the claims within Article 123(3) EPC Second auxiliary request: introduction by the Board at the oral proceedings of a fresh document reflecting the common general knowledge - inventive step (no) - obvious solution Third auxiliary request: remittal to the first instance for further prosecution (no) Fourth auxiliary request: referral of a question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.305K)
T 0971/00 () of 7.5.2003
Online on 27.06.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/73	Application no. 92106728.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no) - objection technical problem				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.686K)
T 0171/01 () of 4.6.2003
Online on 27.06.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65G 47/50	Application no. 95916642.2
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.375K)
T 0654/01 () of 23.5.2003
Online on 27.06.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 23.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65C 11/00	Application no. 95929452.1
Keywords: Withdrawl of opposition Inadmissible extension (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.860K)
T 0043/00 ("Pharmaceutical preparations/AKZO) of 9.5.2003
Online on 26.06.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 9.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/20	Application no. 92103963.2
Keywords: Main request: novelty (no) - prior use adequately substantiated by evidence: prejudicial to the novelty of claim 5 as granted First and second auxiliary requests: admissible and allowable Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution: prior use represents highly relevant state of the art not considered by the first instance - case different from that on which the first instance's decision was based				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 53.237K)
T 0792/00 (Varied binding proteins/DYAX) of 2.7.2002
Online on 26.06.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 2.7.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/00	Application no. 89910702.3
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - main and auxiliary requests 1 to 4 (no)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.265K)
T 0983/98 (Liquid cleaning products/UNILEVER) of 5.12.2002
Online on 26.06.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 5.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 92203220.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - general applicability not demonstrated of a technical effect (here: Farris effect) for predicting a property (here: viscosity of a liquid cleaning product; point 2.6.3)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.603K)
T 0442/00 () of 26.5.2003
Online on 25.06.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 26.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC E21B 10/46	Application no. 93101796.6
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.921K)
T 1120/02 () of 24.6.2003
Online on 24.06.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 24.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F27D 23/02 F27B 7/20	Application no. 98910736.2
Keywords: Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.812K)
T 0259/03 () of 18.6.2003
Online on 24.06.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 18.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 94905418.3
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.482K)
T 0252/99 () of 20.5.2003
Online on 24.06.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01T 1/29	Application no. 92311171.0
Keywords: EPC Art. 54 main request - novelty (no) EPC Art. 56 auxiliary request - inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.870K)
T 1096/00 (Chip carrier/TESSERA) of 29.4.2003
Online on 23.06.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 29.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/58	Application no. 94924580.7
Keywords: Substantial procedural violation (yes) - decision based on an objection which was not substantiated in a previous communication Reimbursement of the appeal fee (yes) Remittal (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 23.396K)
T 0493/01 (Acellular vaccine/CELLTECH) of 4.6.2003
Online on 23.06.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 4.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/31	Application no. 92901932.1
Keywords: Inventive step - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.510K)
T 1077/01 () of 2.6.2003
Online on 23.06.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 2.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60Q 1/14	Application no. 97120842.6
Keywords: Änderungen - Anspruchserweiterung (nach Wiedervorlage der ursprünglichen Anspruchsfassung verneint) Entscheidung über die Beschwerde-Zurückverweisung (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 16.694K)
T 1129/01 () of 24.4.2003
Online on 23.06.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 24.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 33/02	Application no. 94306632.4
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Clarity (yes) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.274K)
T 0310/99 (Down Syndrome/MACRI) of 1.4.2003
Online on 23.06.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/76	Application no. 90903086.8
Keywords: Main request: allowability of an amendment (no) First auxiliary request: invention technical in character (yes) Excluded diagnostic method (no) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.257K)
W 0007/02 () of 25.3.2003
Online on 20.06.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H04Q 7/00	Application no. -
Keywords: Uneinheitlichkeit a priori (nein) Fehlende Begründung				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 21.457K)
T 1125/00 () of 29.4.2003
Online on 18.06.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 29.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC E04F 10/06	Application no. 93500141.2
Keywords: Activité inventive (confirmée)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 28.849K)
T 1044/02 () of 10.6.2003
Online on 18.06.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 10.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22F 1/00 B22D 17/00 C22B 9/16	Application no. 99201696.4
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 69.306K)
T 0678/98 (Isomerisation of olefins/EXXON) of 10.6.2003
Online on 18.06.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 10.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 11/09	Application no. 91911457.9
Keywords: Re-establishment into the time limit for filing grounds of appeal (yes) - isolated mistake in calculation of time limit - all due care required by circumstances taken Novelty (yes) - no direct and unambiguous disclosure of the claimed subject-matter Remittal to first instance				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.100K)
T 0682/99 (CC-1065 analogues/PHARMACIA) of 21.5.2003
Online on 18.06.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 487/04	Application no. 91909127.2
Keywords: Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 9 - inventive step (no) - obvious solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.035K)
T 0804/00 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 17.06.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B23Q 7/14	Application no. 95924296.7
Keywords: Verspätet vorgebrachte offenkundige Vorbenutzung (nicht relevant) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.048K)
T 1063/00 () of 16.6.2003
Online on 17.06.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 16.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 22/83	Application no. 95938516.2
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes after amendment)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.244K)
T 0532/01 () of 28.5.2003
Online on 17.06.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 28.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 43/58	Application no. 96116241.9
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.259K)
T 0195/00 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 16.06.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H01L 21/58	Application no. 95907695.1
Keywords: Activité inventive (après modifications) : oui - incompatibilité entre les documents de l'art antérieur				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 26.846K)
T 0665/01 () of 25.5.2003
Online on 16.06.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 25.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/336	Application no. 94830316.9
Keywords: Inventive step (yes - after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.634K)
T 0459/99 (Indoles/PIERRE FABRE) of 20.5.2003
Online on 16.06.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C07D 209/16	Application no. 95901501.7
Keywords: Activité inventive (oui) - après modification - activité non prévisible				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 49.229K)
T 0572/00 (Backscatter system/LUCENT) of 14.5.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01S 13/82 G06K 7/10	Application no. 97310201.5
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 19.573K)
T 0843/00 () of 1.4.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 45/16	Application no. 93108241.6
Keywords: Inventive step, main request (no) Extension beyond the content of the application as filed, first auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step, second auxiliary request (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.864K)
T 0904/00 (Interconnection-point memory/TEXAS INSTRUMENTS) of 2.4.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 12/56 H04Q 11/04	Application no. 95400552.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.991K)
T 1084/00 (HIV-3 variants/INNOGENETICS) of 11.4.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 11.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 7/00	Application no. 94110658.5
Keywords: Main request - added subject-matter (no) Disclosure - sufficiency (yes) Clarity (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.024K)
T 0124/01 (VCR scheduling/STARSIGHT TELECAST) of 6.2.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 6.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 7/087 H04N 7/04 G11B 27/02 H04H 1/00	Application no. 89909061.7
Keywords: Novelty (no) Late filed auxiliary request (not admitted)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.984K)
T 0281/02 () of 19.5.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A01D 21/00	Application no. 97106501.6
Keywords: Geänderter unabhängiger Anspruch - Gegenstand geht über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der ursprünglich eingereichten Fassung hinaus (nein) Klarheit des unabhängigen Anspruchs (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 19.667K)
T 1026/98 (Beitritt/KALLE) of 13.6.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B32B 27/34	Application no. 91108077.8
Keywords: Beitritt im Beschwerdeverfahren Fortführung des Verfahrens nach Zurücknahme der einzigen Beschwerde Befassung der Großen Beschwerdekammer				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 31.742K)
T 1026/98 (Beitritt/KALLE) of 13.6.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B32B 27/34	Application no. 91108077.8
Keywords: Beitritt im Beschwerdeverfahren Fortführung des Verfahrens nach Zurücknahme der einzigen Beschwerde Befassung der Großen Beschwerdekammer				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.416K)
T 1026/98 (Intervention/KALLE) of 13.6.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B32B 27/34	Application no. 91108077.8
Keywords: Intervention in appeal proceedings Continuation of proceedings after withdrawal of the sole appeal Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.885K)
T 1026/98 (Intervention/KALLE) of 13.6.2003
Online on 13.06.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 13.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B32B 27/34	Application no. 91108077.8
Keywords: Intervention dans la procédure de recours Poursuite de la procédure après le retrait de l'unique recours Saisine de la Grande Chambre de recours				Distribution A	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 40.750K)
T 0616/00 () of 22.5.2003
Online on 12.06.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H02K 15/09	Application no. 94104869.6
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.331K)
T 0976/01 () of 8.5.2003
Online on 12.06.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F21V 8/00	Application no. 93111867.3
Keywords: Novelty and inventive step - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.432K)
T 1144/01 () of 21.5.2003
Online on 12.06.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 21.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01C 21/20 G08G 1/0968	Application no. 95934593.5
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja, bestätigt)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.537K)
T 0496/98 () of 20.2.2003
Online on 12.06.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 20.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 7/00	Application no. 93400409.4
Keywords: Nouveau motif d'opposition (nouveauté) - Admis (non) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 54.604K)
T 0831/00 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 21/00 G02B 7/16	Application no. 90105004.7
Keywords: Availability to the public (yes, established by official export/import documents) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.649K)
T 0018/01 (System for the production of chocolate shells/AASTED-MIKROVERK) of 29.4.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 29.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A23G 1/21	Application no. 94920898.7
Keywords: Main request; inventive step (no): The claimed system relates to an obvious combination of the prior art for the skilled person, namely a system engineer for moulding articles Auxiliary request; Admissibility (yes); Article 123(2) EPC (no); unallowable generalisation of preferred embodiments				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.370K)
T 0751/02 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01M 17/013	Application no. 98120054.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.562K)
T 0841/02 (Liquid crystal/SNIARICERCHE) of 26.5.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 26.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09K 19/54	Application no. 98124536.8
Keywords: Amended set of claims submitted during appeal proceedings supported by the application as filed (yes) Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.843K)
T 0876/02 () of 20.5.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 31/042 H01L 31/048	Application no. 98100917.8
Keywords: Amended claims remitted to first instance				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.027K)
T 1123/02 () of 23.5.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 23.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC F16C 11/06	Application no. 98420195.4
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Requête en remboursement de la taxe de recours pour vice substantiel de procédure (rejetée)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 48.811K)
T 0336/03 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G01N 33/34 G01N 21/85 G01N 15/02 D21G 9/00 B01D 33/00	Application no. 97420084.2
Keywords: Renvoi à la première instance qui aurait dû procéder à la révision préjudicielle.				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 24.729K)
T 1095/99 (Grain size/EASTMAN) of 8.5.2003
Online on 11.06.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G03C 1/498	Application no. 94401217.8
Keywords: Novelty (yes) - implicit disclosure not proven Inventive step (yes) - ex post facto analysis inadmissible				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.226K)
T 0784/01 () of 15.5.2003
Online on 10.06.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16L 1/10 B25B 27/16	Application no. 95905183.0
Keywords: Non appearance at oral proceedings No comments on the objections raised in the Board's communication under Article 11(2) RPBA Inventive step (no) Amendments (not admissible)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.082K)
T 0673/02 () of 3.6.2003
Online on 10.06.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 3.6.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60N 2/16 B60N 2/52 F16K 11/065	Application no. 99923269.7
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.433K)
T 0850/01 (Clinker/F.L.SMIDTH) of 20.5.2003
Online on 06.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C04B 7/44	Application no. 95926381.5
Keywords: Inventive step - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 18.328K)
T 1104/00 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 04.06.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H03K 3/84	Application no. 94100237.0
Keywords: Verstoß gegen Artikel 123(2) - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 22.644K)
T 1228/01 (Zona pellucida antigens/ZONAGEN INC.) of 23.4.2003
Online on 04.06.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 23.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 15/14	Application no. 88908889.4
Keywords: Allowability of amendments (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.701K)
T 0175/00 () of 12.3.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 12.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B23K 11/25	Application no. 92870066.5
Keywords: Activité inventive (requête principale, requêtes subsidiaires) (non) Remboursement de la taxe de recours (non) Vice de procédure (non)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 30.815K)
T 0549/00 (Metal oxide/HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF NEW ZEALAND) of 21.3.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 21.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C04B 35/00	Application no. 89106332.3
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - yes, preparation of the claimed product disclosed under a different name				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.736K)
T 0590/00 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 92401774.2
Keywords: Nouveauté (non) (requête principale et subsidiaire 1 et 2) Modifications - extension de l'objet de la demande (oui) (requête subsidiaire 4)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 26.949K)
T 0323/01 () of 28.3.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 28.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C04B 35/10	Application no. 88903031.8
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Inventive step (yes) - after amendments				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.370K)
T 0670/01 (Solvent Soaps/UNION OIL) of 15.5.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 15.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01F 17/00	Application no. 94927908.7
Keywords: Unallowable extension of scope of protection (main request and second to sixth auxiliary requests) Added subject-matter (all requests)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.614K)
T 0588/99 (Liquid detergents/PROCTER & GAMBLE) of 27.3.2003
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386	Application no. 92870122.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.732K)
T 0598/99 (Method and apparatus for cooling wafers/APPLIED MATERIALS INC.) of 17.12.2002
Online on 03.06.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 17.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/00	Application no. 92108288.9
Keywords: Novelty (yes - after amendment) Inventive step (yes - after amendment) Amendment - an amendment made before grant and not objected to in the notice of opposition cannot in the absence of the patent proprietor's consent be examined by the Board (point 3.2.1) Reformatio in peius - where the patentee is the sole appellant the principle of reformatio in peius cannot serve to protect the opponent respondent from being in a worse position than he was in before the appeal				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.938K)
T 0541/00 () of 23.4.2003
Online on 02.06.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 23.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A46B 7/06	Application no. 92906956.5
Keywords: Inventive step - no				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.941K)
T 0846/00 (Thrombus detection/ANTISOMA LIMITED) of 23.3.2003
Online on 02.06.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 23.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 2/00	Application no. 90909765.1
Keywords: Main request: novelty (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.472K)
T 0531/01 () of 5.5.2003
Online on 02.06.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 5.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F02N 15/06	Application no. 96105895.5
Keywords: Novelty - public prior use (no) - insufficient evidence Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.176K)
T 0209/02 (Nonionic surfactant/SASOL) of 14.4.2003
Online on 02.06.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 14.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 1/722	Application no. 00108136.3
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes): unexpected cleaning efficiency in the light of the teaching of the prior art				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.607K)
T 0699/02 (Fibrinogenlösung/AVENTIS BEHRING GmbH) of 20.5.2003
Online on 02.06.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 20.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 35/14	Application no. 92122126.3
Keywords: -				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 20.992K)

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T 0700/00 () of 25.4.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 25.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A44B 18/00	Application no. 93305910.7
Keywords: Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.487K)
T 0730/00 () of 19.5.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/51	Application no. 98307928.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.717K)
T 0364/01 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01R 33/38	Application no. 90307445.8
Keywords: EPC_Art_123(2) Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.898K)
T 0877/02 () of 7.5.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 7.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 31/032	Application no. 98948658.4
Keywords: Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 17.386K)
T 0980/02 () of 26.5.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 26.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B29C 61/06	Application no. 92101256.3
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.629K)
T 0960/98 () of 9.4.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 7/08	Application no. 91310301.6
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.917K)
T 0353/99 (Method and apparatus for the classification of an article/Mars Inc.) of 1.4.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07D 7/00	Application no. 94900952.6
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.275K)
T 0430/99 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 27/06	Application no. 90104815.7
Keywords: Inventive step of the main and first auxiliary request (no) Remittal for further prosecution on the basis of the second auxiliary request Subject-matter submitted for the first time during the appeal proceedings.				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 721.114K)
T 0546/99 () of 16.5.2003
Online on 30.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 16.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/82	Application no. 92304719.5
Keywords: Novlety (yes - after amendments) Inventive step (yes - after amendments) Reimbursement of appeal fee not substantiated				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.221K)
T 0595/00 (Compositions d'enrobage/VIRBAC) of 25.3.2003
Online on 28.05.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 9/28	Application no. 93402877.0
Keywords: Composition d'enrobage ; activité inventive (non) : les compositions découlent de façon évidente de l'enseignement de l'art antérieur le plus proche Utilisation d'une composition d'enrobage ; clarté et support dans la description (non) : le but énoncé dans la revendication d'utilisation ne trouve pas de support dans la description du brevet				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 45.346K)
T 1117/02 () of 22.5.2003
Online on 28.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 22.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G08B 13/22	Application no. 95120068.2
Keywords: Fehlende Beschwerdebegründung				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 14.920K)
T 0223/99 () of 11.12.2002
Online on 28.05.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 11.12.2002	Proc. language FR	IPC B42D 15/00	Application no. 94900659.7
Keywords: Nouveauté : requête principale (non) Requête auxiliaire - insuffisance de l'exposé de l'invention (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 39.434K)
T 0530/99 () of 16.4.2003
Online on 28.05.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 16.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G07F 7/08	Application no. 90400015.5
Keywords: Motifs d'opposition - non brevetabilité Activité inventive (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 30.675K)
T 0430/00 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 27.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01R 13/00	Application no. 93301116.5
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes (amended claims)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.979K)
T 0952/00 () of 27.11.2002
Online on 27.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 27.11.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC E06B 3/20 E05D 15/10 E06B 3/36 E06B 3/96	Application no. 91901265.8
Keywords: Particular expression not allowable under Articles 84 and 123(2) EPC, (main request and auxiliary requests I to III) Auxiliary request IV: too late filed and feature not searched Apportionment of costs (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 45.350K)
T 0016/01 (Facial foundation/FD) of 14.5.2003
Online on 27.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01F 13/10	Application no. 94925449.4
Keywords: Inventive step - (yes), not obvious without hindsight				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.019K)
T 0307/01 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 27.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B02C 4/30	Application no. 94925371.0
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - rückschauende Betrachtungsweise				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.458K)
T 0845/00 () of 11.3.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 11.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 2/06	Application no. 94905682.4
Keywords: Neuer Einspruchsgrund (unzulässig) Konflikt zwischen Artikel 123(2) und (3) EPÜ Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja - Hilfsantrag)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.360K)
T 1158/00 () of 2.4.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 92121187.6
Keywords: Amendments - extension of the protection conferred (no) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Clarity (yes) Novelty - after amendment (yes) Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 38.465K)
T 0581/01 () of 2.4.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B02C 23/08 B02C 23/02	Application no. 94115737.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - allgemeines Fachwissen				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 30.271K)
T 0793/01 () of 8.4.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 8.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E06B 9/324	Application no. 95101242.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.784K)
T 1127/01 () of 28.3.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 28.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C21D 9/00	Application no. 96113387.3
Keywords: Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 23.250K)
T 0350/02 () of 27.3.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B60P 1/28	Application no. 96460015.9
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Exposé suffisant de l'invention (oui) Admissibilité des modifications (oui), caractéristique tirée des dessins				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 35.225K)
T 1043/02 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F23D 11/16 F23D 11/38 F23D 11/40 F23C 7/00	Application no. 97810801.7
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.262K)
T 0498/99 (Insulated gate type bipolar-transistor with overvoltage protection/ … of 12.3.2003
Online on 26.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 12.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/72	Application no. 92104203.2
Keywords: Inventive step (yes - after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.500K)
T 0635/00 (Hybridation sandwich/BIO MERIEUX) of 18.3.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C12Q 1/68	Application no. 91911286.2
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 40.647K)
T 1163/00 () of 24.3.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 24.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B23Q 1/00	Application no. 93104144.6
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Änderungen - ja Neuheit - ja Erfinderische Tätigkeit - ja				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.052K)
T 0031/01 () of 23.5.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 23.5.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC G01B 5/30	Application no. 94400240.1
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Interprétation de la revendication Renvoi à la première instance				Distribution B	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 21.992K)
T 0213/01 () of 8.5.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G08B 13/00	Application no. 95932457.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 21.391K)
T 0425/01 () of 25.3.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65H 54/32	Application no. 92924663.5
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 55.980K)
T 0500/02 () of 31.3.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 31.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G01L 9/00	Application no. 95104780.2
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nach Änderung (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 37.797K)
W 0008/01 () of 28.4.2003
Online on 23.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 28.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A47G 27/04	Application no. -
Keywords: Protest limited to one of several additional search fees Invitation to pay protest fee - not ruling out any misunderstanding Refund of the protest fee				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.033K)
T 0250/00 (Ester additive/EXXON) of 24.3.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 24.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C10L 1/18	Application no. 94905667.5
Keywords: Clarity (main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 3) - no				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.787K)
T 0568/00 () of 15.4.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 15.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 71/12	Application no. 96304236.1
Keywords: Amendments (all requests) - added subject-matter (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.360K)
T 0803/00 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08K 3/38	Application no. 95928842.4
Keywords: Inventive step - obvious combination of known features				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.359K)
T 1188/00 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08F 2/02	Application no. 94112082.6
Keywords: Aufgaben-Neuformulierung (nein) Effekt nicht über den gesamten Anspruchsbereich belegt Beweislast bei der Patentinhaberin				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 41.373K)
T 0340/01 () of 1.4.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65H 54/28	Application no. 91918586.8
Keywords: Added subject-matter - (yes, first auxiliary request) Novelty - (no, main request - yes, second auxiliary request) Inventive step - (yes - second auxiliary request)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.502K)
T 0491/01 (Low-e Glass/GUARDIAN) of 26.3.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 26.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03C 17/36	Application no. 93102994.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 39.072K)
T 0070/99 (Analytical devices/UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) of 23.1.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 23.1.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01L 3/00	Application no. 93910891.6
Keywords: Admissibility of amendments: yes - generic definition of a subgroup of embodiments by means of a term not literally disclosed but clearly and unambiguously derivable from application as filed Novelty: yes - suitability of prior art device to perform the function to be performed by claimed device not convincingly established Inventive step: yes - after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 53.979K)
T 0559/99 (Fuel filter/STANADYNE) of 10.3.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 10.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 35/30	Application no. 92306161.8
Keywords: Late filed document: not disregarded Apportionment of costs: no, not equitable Sufficiency of disclosure: yes - not affected by error in alternative drawing Novelty: yes - drawing to be considered in the light of corresponding description Inventive step: yes - non obvious combination of features				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.488K)
T 0670/99 () of 19.12.2002
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 19.12.2002	Proc. language FR	IPC C03C 3/085	Application no. 93924101.4
Keywords: Nouveauté : oui Activité inventive (oui) - solution non-évidente				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 31.604K)
T 0684/99 () of 8.4.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 8.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08L 23/02	Application no. 93114316.8
Keywords: Klarheit, Ausführbarkeit (nein) - nicht über die gesamte Anspruchsbreite				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 47.448K)
T 1020/99 () of 12.5.2003
Online on 22.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 12.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 38/60	Application no. 94306631.6
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.599K)
T 0301/00 (Coated glass/ASAHI) of 6.2.2003
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 6.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03C 17/34	Application no. 92118418.0
Keywords: -				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 54.404K)
T 0129/02 () of 12.3.2003
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 12.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A45D 26/00	Application no. 94106795.1
Keywords: Verfahren - patentfähige Erfindung (ja) Verfahren - gewerblich anwendbar (ja) Neuheit (ja))				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 36.771K)
T 0195/02 () of 19.3.2003
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 5/017	Application no. 95926028.2
Keywords: Main request - added subject-matter (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.821K)
T 0556/02 () of 19.2.2003
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 7/04	Application no. 96201558.2
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.924K)
T 0558/02 (Re-establishment/BEARA) of 9.8.2002
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 9.8.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC F02B 75/28	Application no. 95934001.9
Keywords: Re-establish - all due care - sudden illness Appeal admissible - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 15.770K)
T 0393/98 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 21.05.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC C09D 175/00	Application no. 92401637.1
Keywords: Activité inventive - préjugés dans l'état de la technique (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 30.863K)
T 0924/00 () of 3.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 3.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 210/00	Application no. 90125706.3
Keywords: Main request - added subject-matter (yes) Auxiliary request - added subject-matter (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 54.976K)
T 0987/00 () of 2.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H03J 1/00	Application no. 94401659.1
Keywords: Extension - requête principale (oui) Activité inventive - requête subsidiaire (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 33.297K)
T 0800/01 () of 17.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 17.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 27/16	Application no. 95939411.5
Keywords: Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.900K)
T 0116/98 () of 9.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 21/20	Application no. 88402465.4
Keywords: Admission of submissions relating to fresh issue at oral proceedings (no) Hearing of witness with respect to fresh issue - no Inventive step - yes Inadmissible amendment (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.692K)
T 0590/98 ("Radiopharmaceuticals/AMERSHAM PLC") of 30.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 51/00	Application no. 90914225.9
Keywords: Admissibility of appeal (yes): no evidence of transfer of business Main request: disclaimer not acceptable under Articles 84 and 123(2) EPC; no reason to suspend the proceedings until decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in cases G 0001/03 and G 0002/03 Auxiliary requests 1 to 4: not admissible as reformatio in peius Apportionment of costs (no)				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 79.218K)
T 1024/98 (Recording material/OJI PAPER) of 5.2.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 5.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B41M 5/30	Application no. 91100836.5
Keywords: Main request: clarity (yes) - only mandatory features are to be incorporated into a claim Fresh ground of opposition - not admitted Inventive step (yes) - ex post facto analysis inadmissible				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.786K)
T 0540/99 (Fabrication d'aliment/NEPTUNE) of 2.4.2003
Online on 20.05.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 2.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A23L 1/325	Application no. 93401515.7
Keywords: Requête principale,				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 40.735K)
T 0931/00 (Oxygen/AIR PRODUCTS) of 19.5.2003
Online on 19.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 19.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 53/22	Application no. 94119787.3
Keywords: Unallowable extension (main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 20) - creation of new parameters Inventive step (auxiliary request 21) - yes, no incentive for the claimed solution of the problem in the prior art				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 41.914K)
W 0019/02 (Drug delivery/MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL) of 10.4.2003
Online on 19.05.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/00	Application no. -
Keywords: Lack of unity a posteriori (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.036K)
T 0370/00 () of 12.5.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 12.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60Q 1/068	Application no. 93104884.7
Keywords: Clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.247K)
T 0391/01 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 7/00	Application no. 95110144.3
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 26.726K)
T 0420/01 () of 31.3.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 31.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E21B 27/00 E21B 11/04	Application no. 94911826.9
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 32.138K)
T 0488/01 () of 14.3.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 14.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 25/00	Application no. 93111939.0
Keywords: New subject-matter (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.850K)
T 0721/01 () of 5.2.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 5.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B21B 31/18 B21B 13/14 B21B 29/00	Application no. 94402057.7
Keywords: Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 31.061K)
T 0843/01 () of 9.4.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F16D 41/28 F16D 41/06	Application no. 95307124.8
Keywords: Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Late submitted material - admitted (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.331K)
T 0208/02 () of 3.4.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 6/16 G02B 6/245	Application no. 97915847.4
Keywords: Inventive step of main request and first and second auxiliary requests (no), of third auxiliary request (remittal to the first instance for further prosecution)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.843K)
T 0444/02 () of 3.4.2003
Online on 16.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 3.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F16C 1/16	Application no. 95118171.8
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.935K)
T 0327/00 () of 13.3.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 13.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/18	Application no. 94309644.6
Keywords: After amendments: admissibility of the amendments (yes) Inventive step (yes) Procedural violation (no) Reimbursement of the appeal fee (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 35.084K)
T 0505/00 (Anti-free PSA antibody/LILJA) of 25.3.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/573	Application no. 91913019.5
Keywords: Added subject-matter - no Novelty over alleged prior use - yes Inventive step - yes Sufficiency of disclosure - yes				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 58.791K)
T 0721/00 (Storage of digital images/EASTMAN KODAK) of 19.9.2002
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 19.9.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 1/21 H04N 1/387	Application no. 91917852.5
Keywords: Main and first auxiliary requests - novelty (no) Second auxiliary request - added subject-matter (yes) Third auxiliary request - novelty (yes) Remittal to first instance (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.649K)
T 0051/01 (Parametrisierung/DATA LOGIC) of 27.11.2002
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 27.11.2002	Proc. language DE	IPC G06K 7/10	Application no. 95110537.8
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.655K)
T 0183/01 () of 8.4.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 8.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 3/28	Application no. 95302043.5
Keywords: Novelty - yes Inventive step - yes				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 29.543K)
T 0252/01 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H02K 5/14	Application no. 95117177.6
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.964K)
T 0108/98 (HSV glycoproteins/DADE BEHRING) of 27.3.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/569	Application no. 84305908.0
Keywords: All claim requests - novelty (yes) Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.572K)
T 0165/99 (Crystalline lactulose/DUPHAR) of 3.3.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 3.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 3/04	Application no. 91202591.3
Keywords: Admission of a late ground of opposition on appeal (yes) - wrong discretion exercised by opposition division Main request - disclosure - sufficiency - (no) Remittal to the first instance - (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 44.176K)
T 0666/99 () of 1.4.2003
Online on 15.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E02F 05/02 E02D 17/13	Application no. 94909118.5
Keywords: Verspätete Änderung der Patentansprüche und Einreichung von Hilfsanträgen in der mündlichen Verhandlung - nicht zugelassen Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit - (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 40.125K)
T 0188/00 (Via lead/FUJITSU) of 5.5.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/48	Application no. 91104125.9
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Prior art documents which relate to different devices - no incentive to combine Refund of further search fee (yes) - review by the examining division of the finding of lack of unity based on a document not cited in the partial search report				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 31.721K)
T 0229/00 () of 16.4.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 16.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 8/12	Application no. 92914893.0
Keywords: Clarity (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.338K)
T 0399/01 () of 7.2.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 7.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 11/00	Application no. 92913029.2
Keywords: Sufficient disclosure (yes) Novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.986K)
T 0686/01 () of 19.3.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 19.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01M 11/02	Application no. 93310341.8
Keywords: Inventive step (first auxiliary request: yes) Admissibility of new request filed at the oral proceedings (yes, legitimate reaction to an objection raised by the other party, not introducing any new issues of substance)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 34.731K)
T 0558/02 () of 14.5.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 14.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC F02B 75/28	Application no. 95934001.9
Keywords: Inventive step - main request (no) Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution on the basis of an auxiliary request				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.396K)
T 0054/03 () of 24.3.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 24.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 11/04 B22D 11/22 B22D 11/07	Application no. 95106314.8
Keywords: Revocation - on application by patentee Basis of decisions - patentee (agreement of)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 17.007K)
T 0114/99 () of 5.5.2003
Online on 14.05.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/285	Application no. 91310146.5
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Reimbursement of the appeal fee (no) - no substantial procedural violation New arguments in the oral proceedings before the examining division based on a prior art document cited in the written proceedings				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 32.802K)
T 0843/99 (Aerosol formulations/SCHERING) of 13.5.2003
Online on 13.05.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 13.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/72	Application no. 92912490.7
Keywords: Main request and auxiliary request - inventive step - no: obvious combination				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.535K)
T 1180/00 () of 7.4.2003
Online on 12.05.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H03L 7/099	Application no. 94120465.3
Keywords: Inventive step - no				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.861K)
T 0304/01 () of 25.3.2003
Online on 12.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60J 10/02	Application no. 95908215.7
Keywords: Zulässige Änderungen (Hauptantrag, bejaht) Anspruchserweiterung (Hauptantrag, verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hauptantrag, bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 37.203K)
T 0521/01 () of 30.4.2003
Online on 12.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 30.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04Q 7/38 H04B 7/26	Application no. 92111815.4
Keywords: Missing statement of grounds				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.460K)
T 0972/01 () of 6.5.2003
Online on 12.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 6.5.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G02B 6/46 G02B 6/44	Application no. 97101253.9
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nach Änderung bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.935K)
T 0501/99 (Lipophilic soil/COLGATE) of 10.2.2003
Online on 12.05.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 10.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 90202510.5
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (no) - no teaching enabling the skilled person to verify without needing inventive skill if the conversion to a microemulsion required by the claimed process takes place				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.074K)
T 0966/00 () of 6.3.2003
Online on 09.05.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 6.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C08G 18/48	Application no. 93915976.0
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja) - über gesamte Anspruchsbreite Neuheit (ja) - Verwendungsanspruch entspricht G2/88				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 51.771K)
T 0130/01 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 09.05.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B02C 4/06	Application no. 88908133.7
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - rückschauende Betrachtungsweise Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr (abgelehnt)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 33.815K)
T 0520/02 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 09.05.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G02B 1/10	Application no. 94105480.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nach Änderung (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.054K)
T 0966/99 () of 3.12.2002
Online on 09.05.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 3.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 92112711.4
Keywords: Admissibility of the appeal (yes) Admendments - admissible (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Request to include in the decision certain reasoning in respect of the non-allowability of a request withdrawn by the patentee - rejected Request to include in the minutes of oral proceedings the statements made by the parties concerning the withdrawn request - rejected Referral of a question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - rejected				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 46.176K)
T 0817/00 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 89105197.1
Keywords: Disclosure - sufficiency (yes) Binding effect of an earlier decision of the Board of Appeal Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 40.694K)
T 0961/00 (Adverse effect/HUBER CORP.) of 9.12.2002
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 9.12.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C01B 33/143	Application no. 96902742.4
Keywords: Revocation of patent after declaration according to Legal Advice 11/82 - adverse effect of decision - no Admissibility of appeal by proprietor - no Referral to Enlarged Board - no				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 37.647K)
T 0264/01 () of 27.3.2003
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 27.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65B 11/30	Application no. 92110150.7
Keywords: Added subject-matter (no) Inventive step - main request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 27.864K)
T 0472/01 () of 27.2.2003
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 27.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC B65G 49/08	Application no. 93202217.1
Keywords: Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 23.501K)
T 0516/01 () of 1.4.2003
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F16D 3/18	Application no. 94110066.1
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 25.361K)
T 0446/99 (Bordetella toxin/AMGEN) of 8.5.2003
Online on 08.05.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 8.5.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/00	Application no. 88308124.2
Keywords: Main request: sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 43.465K)
J 0021/02 () of 25.3.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 25.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H02K 23/60	Application no. 98913945.6
Keywords: Restitution in integrum - all due care (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 22.153K)
T 0644/00 (Viewing device/DURAND) of 9.4.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 9.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 9/64 H04N 15/00 H04N 13/00	Application no. 92912576.3
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 24.127K)
T 0757/00 (Influenza A immunization/UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL CENTER) of 26.3.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 26.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 39/145	Application no. 95117311.1
Keywords: Main request - clarity (no) First and second auxiliary requests: added matter over the parent application (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.363K)
T 0913/00 () of 3.3.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 3.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B60T 13/575	Application no. 94918969.0
Keywords: Inventive step (no) Late submitted material - document admitted (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.807K)
T 1062/00 () of 11.4.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 11.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C22C 9/00	Application no. 97903273.7
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.761K)
T 1145/00 () of 22.4.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 22.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B21D 26/02	Application no. 93306902.3
Keywords: Claims - clarity (yes - after amendment) Amendments - added subject-matter (no - after amendment) Amendments - opposition proceedings Inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.710K)
T 0035/01 () of 11.2.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 25/04	Application no. 96108292.2
Keywords: Neuheit (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint) In der mündlichen Verhandlung erstmals vorgelegte Anspruchsfassung - (Hilfsantrag) von der Beschwerdekammer nicht zugelassen				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.397K)
T 0243/01 () of 23.1.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 23.1.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC A61C 15/00	Application no. 94119011.8
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja) Klarheit (ja) Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 26.457K)
T 0338/01 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 21/00	Application no. 95907553.2
Keywords: Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hauptantrag, bejaht)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 22.956K)
T 0543/01 () of 13.3.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 13.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B21C 23/00 B21C 23/08	Application no. 94810389.0
Keywords: Neuheit (bejaht) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (verneint)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 22.342K)
T 0717/01 () of 14.1.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 14.1.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC F16L 37/00	Application no. 95108952.3
Keywords: Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde der Patentinhaberin Änderung des der angefochtenen Entscheidung zugrundeliegenden Sachverhalts (neue Patentansprüche) Fehlende Begründung (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein)				Distribution B	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 38.488K)
T 1089/02 () of 22.4.2003
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 22.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC G06K 19/07 G06K 7/00	Application no. 98119306.3
Keywords: Fehlende Beschwerdebegründung Antrag auf mündliche Verhandlung zurückgezogen				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 14.535K)
T 0976/99 (Mixing valve/THE HORNE ENGINEERING) of 21.2.2002
Online on 07.05.2003	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 21.2.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC G05D 23/13	Application no. 91302285.1
Keywords: Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Novelty and inventive step (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 49.022K)
D 0005/02 () of 10.4.2003
Online on 06.05.2003	Board DBA	Decision date 10.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords: -				Distribution	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 15.693K)
T 0298/99 () of 11.3.2003
Online on 06.05.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 11.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 109/00	Application no. 92401967.2
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - problem and solution - non-obvious solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 42.153K)
T 0437/98 (DNA integration/NOVOZYMES) of 29.1.2003
Online on 05.05.2003	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 29.1.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/68	Application no. 91901587.5
Keywords: Main request - clarity (no) First and second auxiliary requests - clarity (no) Third auxiliary request - clarity (yes) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) Procedural violation (no) Reimbursement of appeal fees (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 58.121K)

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April 2003

T 1082/97 (Decanole/CELANESE) of 8.4.2003
Online on 30.04.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 29/141	Application no. 93119242.1
Keywords: Unzulässige Änderung - beanspruchter Gegenstand geht über den Inhalt der ursprünglichen Anmeldung hinaus				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.238K)
T 0852/00 () of 18.2.2003
Online on 29.04.2003	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 18.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B29C 70/34	Application no. 94116382.6
Keywords: Ausführbarkeit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 27.114K)
T 0999/00 () of 1.4.2003
Online on 29.04.2003	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 1/36	Application no. 93303126.2
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 20.524K)
T 0727/02 () of 17.3.2003
Online on 29.04.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 17.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03B 23/04	Application no. 96921199.4
Keywords: Inventive step (no)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 30.969K)
T 0103/00 (Imidazolium salts/UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA) of 1.4.2003
Online on 25.04.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 1.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 233/56	Application no. 91904429.7
Keywords: Clarity (yes) - terms hydrocarbyl and substituted hydrocarbyl not unclear Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) - deficiency not established Inventive step (yes) - problem solved by whole scope of claimed process - non obvious solution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 33.314K)
T 0975/00 () of 7.4.2003
Online on 25.04.2003	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C08K 13/00	Application no. 95911758.1
Keywords: Novelty (no) - product-by-process claims (main request) Inventive step (yes) - separate stabiliser addition not obvious (first auxiliary request)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 36.025K)
T 1049/02 (Enzyme-containing granulate/KAO) of 11.4.2003
Online on 25.04.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 11.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386	Application no. 96914435.1
Keywords: Misssing statement of grounds (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 14.173K)
T 0438/00 () of 17.4.2003
Online on 24.04.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 17.4.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC D02G 1/16	Application no. 96941707.0
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui) Modification admissible (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 25.113K)
T 1043/00 () of 4.4.2003
Online on 24.04.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B65D 1/22	Application no. 94104271.5
Keywords: Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 24.756K)
T 0335/01 () of 4.4.2003
Online on 24.04.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B65G 17/08	Application no. 94117158.9
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 25.688K)
T 0191/98 () of 4.3.2003
Online on 24.04.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 4.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B23K 26/00	Application no. 88900975.9
Keywords: Inventive step - no Admittance of late filed evidence - yes Right to be heard - yes				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 67.327K)
T 0283/99 (Aromatic carbonates/ASAHI) of 11.3.2003
Online on 23.04.2003	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 11.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 68/06	Application no. 91901641.0
Keywords: Main request: amendment - support in the application as filed (no) First and second auxiliary requests - not admissible				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 62.253K)
T 0988/00 () of 20.3.2003
Online on 22.04.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 20.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC H02K 23/06	Application no. 94924258.0
Keywords: Änderungen - Erweiterung (verneint) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 66.226K)
T 0972/00 () of 15.4.2003
Online on 17.04.2003	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 15.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01J 37/32	Application no. 90119065.2
Keywords: Insufficiency of disclosure (no) Late filed grounds of opposition (yes) Clarity (yes) Late filed document (yes) Novelty, inventive step (yes)				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 63.150K)
T 1171/00 (pH-Wert/SASOL) of 26.2.2003
Online on 17.04.2003	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 26.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC C11D 17/00	Application no. 91918719.5
Keywords: Neuheit (Hauptantrag): ja Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Hauptantrag): ja - rückschauende Betrachtung nicht zulässig				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 67.824K)
T 0404/01 () of 11.3.2003
Online on 17.04.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 11.3.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC B28D 1/08	Application no. 94926760.3
Keywords: Neuheit, erfinderische Tätigkeit				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 65.385K)
T 0266/00 () of 17.2.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 17.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01F 13/10	Application no. 95119240.0
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) Exclusion of hindsight				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 60.021K)
T 0858/98 () of 18.3.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 18.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 7/10	Application no. 91907516.8
Keywords: Opposition grounds - lack of inventive step				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 28.956K)
T 0662/99 () of 6.3.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 6.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC H01L 21/8246	Application no. 96400226.5
Keywords: Après modifications : clarté (oui) Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive (oui)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 69.192K)
T 0710/99 () of 11.2.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 11.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/00	Application no. 90109477.1
Keywords: New requests filed during the oral proceedings before the Board - admitted (see point 2.4 of the "Reasons for the Decision")				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 70.546K)
T 0816/99 (VSA process/AIR PRODUCTS) of 12.2.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 12.2.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 53/047	Application no. 93115162.5
Keywords: Novelty: yes - allegedly inherent properties of prior art product not convincingly established Inventive step: yes (after amendment) - non-obvious alternative				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 85.058K)
T 0841/99 () of 7.4.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 7.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/50	Application no. 91910167.5
Keywords: Admissibility of the amendments (yes) Clarity (yes) Inventive step (yes - after amendments)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 68.634K)
T 1047/99 () of 13.3.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 13.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 21/00	Application no. 94914494.3
Keywords: Amendments - substantive Inventive step (yes) - after amendments Remittal for further prosecution with additional search				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 57.681K)
T 1104/99 (Mobile ions/HARRIS) of 4.4.2003
Online on 16.04.2003	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 4.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/76	Application no. 93901921.2
Keywords: Technical functional feature in a method claim Inventive step (yes) - after amendment				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 64.843K)
T 1071/01 () of 26.2.2003
Online on 15.04.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 26.2.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A41H 3/00	Application no. 94921011.6
Keywords: Nouveauté (oui) Activité inventive requête principale (non), requête auxiliaire (oui)				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 33.063K)
T 0307/99 (Restauration osseuse/IMPLANT INNOVATIONS,INC.) of 20.3.2003
Online on 15.04.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 20.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A61L 27/00	Application no. 90420194.4
Keywords: Activité inventive - oui : propriété inattendue et non évidente dans la coupe granulométrique sélectionnée				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 71.297K)
T 0664/99 () of 5.3.2003
Online on 15.04.2003	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 5.3.2003	Proc. language FR	IPC A01G 31/00	Application no. 88402448.0
Keywords: Usage antérieur (non prouvé) Activité inventive (oui) Remboursement de la taxe de recours (non)				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 34.230K)
T 0068/00 () of 10.2.2003
Online on 14.04.2003	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC D04H 13/00	Application no. 94906867.0
Keywords: Änderungen - Zulässigkeit (bejaht) Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit (bejaht)				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 29.510K)
T 0223/01 (Fluid therapy/BTG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED) of 4.3.2003
Online on 14.04.2003	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 4.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 33/00	Application no. 86309899.2
Keywords: Main and first auxiliary requests - no - generalisation not supported Second auxiliary request - novelty - no: exclusion not sufficient to delimit over the prior art disclosure Third auxiliary request - novelty - yes: second medical uses of the claimed compositions not anticipated				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 70.531K)
T 0722/01 () of 20.3.2003
Online on 14.04.2003	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 20.3.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC G01M 11/02	Application no. 93310340.0
Keywords: Deletion of features from claim 1: admissible amendment Late-filed citations: admitted into the procedure Remittal to the first instance for further prosecution				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 64.406K)
T 0416/02 () of 14.4.2003
Online on 14.04.2003	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.4.2003	Proc. language EN	IPC C03B 5/16	Application no. 94114120.2
Keywords: Proprietor's refusal to agree to the text for maintaining the patent Appeal procedure closed				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 47.567K)
T 0973/98 () of 24.9.2002
Online on 14.04.2003	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 24.9.2002	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 253/24	Application no. 92307260.7
Keywords: Amendments - added subject-matter (no) - broadening of claim (no) - clarity (yes) Disclosure - sufficiency (yes)				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 108.035K)
T 0251/00 () of 4.2.2003
Online on 11.04.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 4.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC E01B 9/68	Application no. 94890110.3
Keywords: Neuheit - bejaht Erfinderische Tätigkeit - bejaht				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 68.634K)
T 0256/00 () of 5.2.2003
Online on 11.04.2003	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 5.2.2003	Proc. language DE	IPC

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