T 1009/12 of 08.01.2013
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T100912.20130108
- Date of decision
- 8 January 2013
- Case number
- T 1009/12
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 03078107.4
- IPC class
- H05K 3/24C23C 18/42
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Composition and process for plating silver onto a metallic substrate
- Applicant name
- MacDermid, Incorporated
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.2.07
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Inventive step (all requests - no: claims include ineffective concentrations of a component so that this feature not contributing to the solution of a problem cannot be considerd for defining a problem vis-à-vis the closest prior art)
- Catchword
- An ineffective concentration of a compound is considered as an arbitrary feature not contributing to the solution of the underlying problem and therefore not further considered (see point 2.7 of the reasons)"
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.