T 0268/03 of 17.01.2006
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T026803.20060117
- Date of decision
- 17 January 2006
- Case number
- T 0268/03
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 96906548.1
- IPC class
- C07C 17/269
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Synthesis of tetrafluoroethylene
- Applicant name
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
- Opponent name
- Dyneon GmbH & Co. KG
- Board
- 3.3.10
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of late filed requests (yes)
Main and auxiliary request 1: inventive step (no) - obvious alternative
Auxiliary request 2: inventive step (yes) - improvement credible - fair comparative test - Catchword
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- Citing cases
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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 maintain the patent on the basis of claims 1 and 2 of the auxiliary request 2 filed at the oral proceedings before the Board and a description yet to be adapted.