T 0141/14 (NOx selective reduction/UMICORE) of 25.05.2016
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2016:T014114.20160525
- Date of decision
- 25 May 2016
- Case number
- T 0141/14
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 01125186.5
- IPC class
- F01N 3/20B01D 53/94
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Process and device for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in oxygen-rich exhaust gas
- Applicant name
- Umicore AG & Co. KG
- Opponent name
- Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
- Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention R 139
- Keywords
- Main request - correction of error - not immediately evident that nothing else could have been intended - amendment not allowable
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Auxiliary request - inventive step (yes) - non-obvious alternative - Catchword
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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 the patent in amended form on the basis of the claims of the first auxiliary request as filed with letter dated 25 April 2016, and a description and drawings to be adapted thereto.