T 0253/14 of 30.01.2018
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T025314.20180130
- Date of decision
- 30 January 2018
- Case number
- T 0253/14
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 00126315.1
- IPC class
- C23C 30/00C04B 41/52
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- 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
- COATED PCBN CUTTING TOOLS
- Applicant name
- Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Opponent name
- OC Oerlikon Balzers AG
- Board
- 3.2.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84
- Keywords
- Novelty - main request (yes)
Inventive step - reasonable expectation of success (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 1054/05
- 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 opposition division with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of claims 1 to 6 of auxiliary request 3, a description adapted thereto and the figures of the patent specification.