European Patent Office

R 0008/16 (Petition partly clearly inadmissible and partly clearly unallowable) vom 10.07.2017

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2017:R000816.20170710
Datum der Entscheidung
10. Juli 2017
Aktenzeichen
R 0008/16
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
T 1659/14 2016-07-08
Anmeldenummer
05708580.5
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden und -mitglieder verteilt (B)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
LAYING HEAD WITH A VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE
Name des Antragstellers
Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A.
Name des Einsprechenden
Siemens Industry, Inc.
SMS group GmbH
Kammer
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Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Fundamental violation of the right to be heard (no)
Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC (no)
Fundamental procedural defect (no)
Orientierungssatz
1. Only parties adversely affected by a decision may resort to a procedure under Article 112a EPC. The term “fundamental violation” in Article 112a(2)(c) EPC also must be read in this light. An alleged violation cannot be fundamental, in the sense of “intolerable”, if it does not cause an adverse effect. (Reasons, point 23).
2. The principle of party disposition expressed in Article 113(2) EPC does not extend so as to permit a party to dictate how and in which order a deciding body of the EPO may examine the subject-matter before it. The only obligation on the EPO is not to overlook any still pending request in the final decision. A Board has no particular duty to give reasons why it chose to proceed as it did (Reasons, point 25).
3. A Board has no obligation to peruse the whole file of the first instance proceedings. It is the duty of the parties to raise issues again in the appeal proceedings, to the extent necessary, as stipulated by Articles 12(1) and (2) RPBA: “Appeal proceedings shall be based on [the submissions of the parties filed in the appeal proceedings, which] ... should specify expressly all the facts, arguments and evidence relied on” (Reasons, point 38).

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The petition for review is rejected as partly clearly inadmissible and as partly clearly unallowable.