T 2369/09 of 26.07.2012
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T236909.20120726
- Date of decision
- 26 July 2012
- Case number
- T 2369/09
- Online on
- 14 September 2012
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 02254349.0
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Application title
- Method for repairing an apertured gas turbine component
- Applicant name
- United Technologies Corporation
- Opponent name
- SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Board
- 3.2.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)
- Keywords
- Amendments - allowable (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
of 26 July 2012 - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the European patent with the following documents:
- claims 1 - 6 of the fourteenth auxiliary request of 26 June 2012, wherein claim 1 is corrected so as to replace the words "of" and "have" respectively in the expressions "inner metering portion (60) of an outlet" and "being a metering passage have a predetermined throat area", by "to" and "having" respectively,
- description, columns 1 - 4 with insertion page A and columns 5 - 14, all of 26 July 2012;
- drawings, Figures 1 - 7 as granted.