T 0692/00 (Bar Coater/VALMET) of 13.05.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T069200.20030513
- Date of decision
- 13 May 2003
- Case number
- T 0692/00
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 93850110.3
- IPC class
- D21H 23/58
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Coating device for the coating of a size-press roll, paper, or board
- Applicant name
- VALMET CORPORATION
- Opponent name
- Voith Sulzer Papiermachinen GmbH
- Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- All requests: Admissibility of amendments - yes; ambiguity not created by amendments
Main request and first auxiliary request: Novelty - no
Second and third auxiliary request: Inventive step - no; reformulation of the technical problem to be solved in view of the closest prior art; solution - obvious to try
Oral proceedings: attendance - announcement of a party (having requested oral proceedings) shortly before the appointed date that it may or may not attend oral proceedings amounts to an abuse of procedure - Catchword
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.