T 0575/03 of 01.12.2006
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T057503.20061201
- Date of decision
- 1 December 2006
- Case number
- T 0575/03
- Online on
- 2 February 2007
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 96660030.6
- IPC class
- F04C 2/16
- 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
- Screw pump and screw of a screw pump
- Applicant name
- Kone Corporation
- Opponent name
- Allweiler AG
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(c) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10a(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10b(1)
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Added subject-matter (no) - 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 maintain the patent on the basis of the following documents:
- claims 1 to 5 and 7 to 10 as maintained in the interlocutory decision
- claim 6 as filed with letter of 16 December 2003
- description and drawings as granted