T 2216/13 (Screening apparatus / AXIOM) of 28.02.2017
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T221613.20170228
- Date of decision
- 28 February 2017
- Case number
- T 2216/13
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 09006866.9
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- 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
- Apparatus for screening drilling mud
- Applicant name
- Axiom Process Limited
- Opponent name
- Openshaw, Paul Malcolm
- Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 84
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Postr-grant amendment not objectionable under Article 84 EPC (auxiliary request) - combination of granted claims - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- G 0003/14
- Citing cases
- -
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 the patent in amended form with
- claims 1 - 13 and description pages 1 - 6 and 10 - 18 of Auxiliary Request 1 filed with the Proprietor's statement of grounds of appeal; and
- drawing sheets 1/6 to 6/6 of the patent as granted.