T 0961/12 of 25.11.2015
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T096112.20151125
- Date of decision
- 25 November 2015
- Case number
- T 0961/12
- Online on
- 29 February 2016
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 00922390.0
- IPC class
- F17C 5/06
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Hydrogen Fuel Replenishment Process and System
- Applicant name
- Hydrogenics Corporation
- Opponent name
- L'Air Liquide Société Anonyme pour l'Étude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
- Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
- Keywords
- Novelty - (no) main request and first and second auxiliary requests
Late-filed first and third auxiliary requests - admitted
Late-filed fourth auxiliary request not clearly allowable
Inventive step - obvious solution (third auxiliary request)
Inventive step - unsubstantiated arguments against (ninth auxiliary request)
Remittal to the department of first instance - special reasons for not remitting the case
Added subject-matter (yes) seventh auxilliary request - Catchword
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- Citing cases
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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 the following documents:
- claims 1 to 12 of the ninth auxiliary request filed with letter of 23 January 2013,
- adapted description pages 3 and 4 filed during the oral proceedings,
- description pages 2, 5 and 6 of the patent specification,
- figures 1 to 5 of the patent specification.