T 0915/00 of 19.06.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T091500.20020619
- Date of decision
- 19 June 2002
- Case number
- T 0915/00
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 94900026.9
- 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
- Nanocrystalline Metals
- Applicant name
- Integran Technologies Inc.
- Opponent name
- Atotech Deutschland GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of the disclosure (yes)
Inventive step (yes); circumstantial indications of inventive step: commercial implementation, licensing, recognition of the inventor's merits by the scientific community - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
- T 1151/04
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 amended form as follows:
- claims 1 to 20 and description pages 2 to 6, presented at the oral proceedings of 19 June 2002;
- drawings as in the patent specification without Figure 5.