European Patent Office

T 1010/13 of 19.03.2018

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T101013.20180319
Date of decision
19 March 2018
Case number
T 1010/13
Petition for review of
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Application number
08793832.0
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE
Applicant name
Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
Opponent name
Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Alice Allison SA
Pajaro Limited
Patentwerk B.V.
Zardi, M. Marco
Board
3.2.07
Headnote
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Keywords
Procedural deficiencies (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request (yes)
Amendments - auxiliary request
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Catchword
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Citing cases
J 0007/20

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents:

claims

1 to 46 as filed during the oral proceedings as auxiliary request 1

description

pages 2 to 9 as filed during the oral proceedings

figures

1 to 5b of the patent specification.