European Patent Office

T 1464/05 (Hydrogen-absorbing composition/PRYSMIAN) vom 14.05.2009

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2009:T146405.20090514
Datum der Entscheidung
14. Mai 2009
Aktenzeichen
T 1464/05
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
94109180.3
IPC-Klasse
G02B 6/44
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden und -mitglieder verteilt (B)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
Hydrogen-absorbing composition for optical fiber cables and optical fiber cables incorporation such compositions
Name des Antragstellers
Prysmian S.p.A.
Name des Einsprechenden
Alcatel Kabel Beteiligungs-AG
Kammer
3.4.02
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Added subject-matter (main request: yes)
Prior use: delivery possibly for test purposes by way of ordinary commercial transaction - availability to the public (yes)
Inventive step: public prior use as closest state of the art (yes) - treatment of extrinsic features - obviousness (auxiliary requst: no)
Apportionment of costs (yes, in part)
Orientierungssatz
Points 4.2; 5.2.2; 5.3.2 and 5.3.4

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:

- description: pages 2, 2a and 3 to 12 filed during the oral proceedings of 14 May 2009,

- claims: No. 1 to 16 of the first auxiliary request filed during the oral proceedings of 26 June 2008 and

- drawings: figures 1 to 6 as granted.

3. The costs shall be apportioned so that the appellant shall bear its own costs and shall pay to the respondent 75% of the respondent's costs for the second first-instance opposition procedure and 50% of the costs incurred by the respondent in relation to the oral proceedings of 26 June 2008. The respondent shall bear the remainder of its costs.