T 0658/03 of 07.10.2004
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2004:T065803.20041007
- Date of decision
- 7 October 2004
- Case number
- T 0658/03
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 96913550.8
- IPC class
- C08F 210/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Amorphous olefin co/ter-polymers
- Applicant name
- OPTATECH CORPORATION
- Opponent name
- Ticona GmbH
- Board
- 3.3.03
- Headnote
Any change of attribution of claimed subject-matter in an application or patent having different (sets of) claims for different contracting states, to a contracting state under which this subject-matter was not previously subsumed, amounts to an amendment in the sense of Article 123 EPC. Such an amendment is subject, in principle, to full examination as to its conformity with the requirements of the EPC.
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973
- Keywords
- Amendments - Art. 123(2) and (3) - added subject-matter (yes) (main request, auxiliary requests I, IV, V) extension of protection conferred (yes) (auxiliary request VI)
- Catchword
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.