T 0992/99 (Food packaging/CRYOVAC) of 04.05.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T099299.20010504
- Date of decision
- 4 May 2001
- Case number
- T 0992/99
- Online on
- 22 May 2001
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 96910030.4
- IPC class
- B65B 51/30
- 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
- Method and apparatus for automatically packaging a food or non food product
- Applicant name
- Cryovac, Inc.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (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 examining division with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following documents:
Claims: No. 1 as annexed to the communication of the board dispatched on 26 January 2001; No. 2, 3 and 5 to 17, as filed with the appellant's letter dated 18 July 2000; No. 4, as annexed to the communication of the board dispatched on 26 January 2001 but amended as agreed during the telephone call on 26 April 2001;
Description: pages 1 and 6 to 12 of document WO-A-96/31397; page 2 of document WO-A-96/31397 but with the insertion (between lines 17 and 18) as annexed to the communication of the board dispatched on 26 January 2001; pages 3 to 5 filed with the letter dated 18. July 2000; page 13 of document WO-A-96/31397 but with the deletion of part of the last sentence, from the term ", and modification (lines 16 and 17) to the term "of the invention" (line 18);
Drawings: Sheets 1/3 to 3/3 (Figures 1 to 5) of document WO-A-96/31397.