European Patent Office

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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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.

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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ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.