T 0410/01 of 30.09.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T041001.20020930
- Date of decision
- 30 September 2002
- Case number
- T 0410/01
- Online on
- 17 October 2002
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97946465.8
- IPC class
- B22F 1/00H01G 9/042H01G 9/052
- 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
- Niobium powders and Niobium electrolytic capacitors
- Applicant name
- Cabot Corporation
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.2.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - (yes) after amendment
- Catchword
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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 grant a patent with the following documents:
- claims 1 to 33 submitted in the oral proceedings of 16 July 2002, the word "currency" in claim 8 being replaced by "voltage";
- description: pages 1 to 3, 3a, 4 to 27 submitted on 20 September 2002; on page 3, lines 7 to 9, the words "and a capacitor anode obtainable ... of from 5.0 nA/CV to 0.50 nA/CV." are deleted;
- drawings: Figures 1 to 9 according to WO-A-98/19811;