T 0104/01 of 16.09.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T010401.20030916
- Date of decision
- 16 September 2003
- Case number
- T 0104/01
- Online on
- 5 December 2003
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 93113033.0
- IPC class
- D04H 1/54
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Method for making a nonwoven multicomponent polymeric fabric
- Applicant name
- KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
- Opponent name
- Firma Carl Freudenberg
Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik - Board
- 3.2.06
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 57a 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (no) main request and auxiliary requests 1, 2A and 3A
Admissibility of auxiliary requests 2 and 3 - (no)
Inventive step - (yes) fourth auxiliary request - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The main request and auxiliary requests 1, 2, 2A, 3, 3A are rejected.
3. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the following documents:
claims: 1 to 39 of auxiliary request 4 filed with letter dated 15 August 2003;
description: pages 2 to 17 filed during the oral proceedings of 16 September 2003;
drawings: figures 1 to 6 of the patent as granted.