T 2020/13 of 12.10.2017
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T202013.20171012
- Date of decision
- 12 October 2017
- Case number
- T 2020/13
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 04025047.4
- IPC class
- C08G 18/76C08G 18/18C08G 18/66
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Catalyst blends for producing low thermal desorption polyurethane foams
- Applicant name
- Evonik Degussa GmbH
- Opponent name
- Huntsman International LLC
- Board
- 3.3.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
- Keywords
- Novelty in view of combination of compounds defined by their trade names (no) (main request)
Novelty - availability to the public of the products defined by those trade names
Late filed experimental reports allowed (no) - Board's communication and assignement of patent are no appropriate justification for late submission
Inventive step (no) (first auxiliary request)
Inventive step - alleged improvement not shown over the whole breadth of the claim arbitrary reference example used for comparison - obvious solution
Late filed additional auxiliary requests not addmited - 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. European patent No 1 528 072 is revoked