European Patent Office

T 1649/12 (Granular detergent component/Unilever) of 23.10.2015

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T164912.20151023
Date of decision
23 October 2015
Case number
T 1649/12
Online on
1 June 2016
Petition for review of
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Application number
01938063.3
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
GRANULAR DETERGENT COMPONENT AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION
Applicant name
Unilever PLC / Unilever N.V.
Opponent name
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Board
3.3.06
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
Keywords
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Late-filed argument - admitted (no)
Late-filed argument - new line of arguments presented at the oral proceedings
Novelty - (yes)
Novelty - Features not disclosed in claimed combination
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious solution
Catchword
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Cited cases
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Citing cases
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.