European Patent Office

R 0012/23 (Petition for review) of 08.08.2025

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2025:R001223.20250808
Date of decision
8 August 2025
Case number
R 0012/23
Petition for review of
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Application number
16199493.4
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
Abstract on Article 112a(2)(c) EPC
Application title
DEVICE FOR WELDING PROFILED ELEMENTS IN PLASTIC MATERIAL, IN PARTICULAR PVC
Applicant name
Graf Synergy S.r.L.
Opponent name
Urban GmbH & Co. Maschinenbau KG
Kaban Makina San.ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.
Board
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Headnote
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Keywords
Petition allowable (no), no violation of petitioner's right to be heard
Catchword
When the EPO refuses a request, there is no need to base the refusal on multiple legal grounds for refusal that were the subject of the proceedings, as long as the party adversely affected has been heard on all of these grounds.
If a request is refused and multiple factual approaches have been relied on by the requester to support a certain legal conclusion, then all those approaches must be assessed (affirming R 2/14, points 10 and 11).
Citing cases
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The petition for review is unanimously rejected as being clearly unallowable.