T 0810/00 (Hydrogel compositions/UNILEVER) of 02.10.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T081000.20031002
- Date of decision
- 2 October 2003
- Case number
- T 0810/00
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97919017.0
- IPC class
- B01J 13/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Aqueous solution compositions comprising polymer hydrogel compositions
- Applicant name
- UNILEVER PLC, et al
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(3) 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of disclaimer: not decided in view of pending referrals
Novelty: no (both requests) - functionally defined lower limit of a parameter (viscosity) range - claimed sub-range arbitrarily chosen - difference in wording but not in substance - clear and unmistakable implicit disclosure in prior art of viscosities falling in the claimed sub-range - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.