T 0567/96 of 04.04.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T056796.20000404
- Date of decision
- 4 April 2000
- Case number
- T 0567/96
- Online on
- 14 April 2000
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91200987.5
- IPC class
- F16H 61/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Continuously variable transmission with an adjustable pump
- Applicant name
- Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V.
- Opponent name
- P.I.V. Antrieb Werner Reimers GmbH & Co. KG
- Board
- 3.2.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(c) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973
- Keywords
- Opposition grounds - insufficiency of disclosure (no) - extension of subject-matter (no)
Amendments - opposition proceedings (admissible)
Novelty (yes) - 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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent in the following version:
Claims: No. 1 to 19 filed with letter of 15 June 1998;
Description: columns 1, 2 filed with letter of 15. June 1998 and amended as agreed to with letter of 6 March 2000;
columns 3 to 7 filed with letter of 15 June 1998;
Drawings: Figures 1 to 4 as granted.