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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- Decision in English
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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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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- 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.