European Patent Office

T 0493/23 vom 17.01.2025

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T049323.20250117
Datum der Entscheidung
17. Januar 2025
Aktenzeichen
T 0493/23
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
17851037.6
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
Nicht verteilt (D)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
Zusammenfassung von Article 087(1) EPC
Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
Threaded joint
Name des Antragstellers
Nippon Steel Corporation
Vallourec Oil and Gas France
Name des Einsprechenden
Hydril Company
Kammer
3.2.05
Leitsatz
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Relevante Rechtsnormen
European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 153(5)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 87(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
Schlagwörter
Amendments - added subject-matter (main request: yes)
Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (twelfth and thirteenth auxiliary requests: yes)
Priority claim valid (twelfth auxiliary request: no, thirteenth auxiliary request: yes)
Novelty (twelfth auxiliary request: no)
Late-filed objection - admitted (thirteenth auxiliary request: no)
Orientierungssatz
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Zitierte Akten
G 0001/15
Zitierende Akten
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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 patent as amended on the basis of following documents

- Claims: claims 1-3 filed as auxiliary request 13 on 12 September 2023,

- Description:

- paragraphs 1-11, 13-40, 43-97, 99-111 of the patent specification,

- paragraphs 41, 42 and 98 filed as auxiliary request 11 on 21 July 2022,

- paragraph 12 filed as auxiliary request 13 on 12 September 2023,

- Drawings: sheets 1-9 of the patent specification