T 2403/11 of 30.04.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T240311.20140430
- Date of decision
- 30 April 2014
- Case number
- T 2403/11
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 01974996.9
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR COATING FOODSTUFFS
- Applicant name
- Ruitenberg Ingredients B.V.
- Opponent name
- CARGILL, INCORPORATED
ISP INVESTMENTS LLC - Board
- 3.3.09
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b)
- Keywords
- Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes)
- Catchword
- An ill-defined parameter in a claim may lead to insufficiency of disclosure if this parameter is relevant for solving the problem addressed in the patent (T 593/09 followed). If, in such a situation, the patent specification states that the ill-defined parameter is relevant and the patent proprietor initially argued along those lines, then, normally it cannot argue, later on in the proceedings, that this parameter does not matter (points 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 of the Reasons).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.