European Patent Office

T 1754/13 of 29.08.2018

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T175413.20180829
Date of decision
29 August 2018
Case number
T 1754/13
Online on
2 October 2018
Petition for review of
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Application number
06015331.9
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
Method for delivering faster a short coffee extract from capsule
Applicant name
Nestec S.A.
Opponent name
MacLean, Martin Robert
Board
3.2.04
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 56
Keywords
Inventive step - (yes)
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:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain European patent

No. 1882432 in amended form as follows:

- Claims: claims 1 to 17 of the main request, originally filed as subsidiary request 3A with letter dated 6 February 2014,

- Description: pages 2, 3 and 6 as filed at the oral proceedings before the Board and pages 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 of the published patent specification and

- Drawings: figures 1 to 9 of the published patent specification.