European Patent Office

T 0500/11 (Trichlorosilane/ELKEM) of 04.09.2013

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T050011.20130904
Date of decision
4 September 2013
Case number
T 0500/11
Petition for review of
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Application number
04748762.4
IPC class
C01B 33/107
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
Method for production of trichlorosilane
Applicant name
Elkem ASA
Opponent name
Evonik Degussa GmbH
Board
3.3.05
Headnote
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Keywords
Disclosure of the invention: sufficient; no gaps in information
Main request: Novelty (no) - end value of a prior art range takes away the novelty of the claimed range
Auxiliary request: amendment - admissible intermediate generalisation - other features not inextricably linked to the feature picked out from a working example; novelty (yes); inventive step (yes) - improvement (yes); obviousness (no)
Catchword
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ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeals are dismissed.