European Patent Office

T 1591/10 of 07.08.2013

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T159110.20130807
Date of decision
7 August 2013
Case number
T 1591/10
Petition for review of
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Application number
01902556.8
Language of proceedings
English
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No distribution (D)
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Application title
Air treatment apparatus
Applicant name
OY Halton Group, Ltd.
Opponent name
Jimco A/S
Board
3.3.10
Headnote
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Keywords
Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 3: inventive step (no) - alleged improvement not shown, reformulation of problem, alternative obvious" "Auxiliary request 4: added subject-matter (no); sufficiency of disclosure (yes) - specification of patent in suit together with common general knowledge provides adequate directions to enable the skilled person to construct units over the whole scope of the claim; inventive step (yes) - improvement plausible, means for achieving it not suggested by prior art
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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 department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of auxiliary request 4 (claims 1 and 2) as filed with letter dated 31 January 2011 and a description yet to be adapted.