T 0592/15 (Polymeric core-shell nanoparticles/BRIDGESTONE) of 26.11.2018
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T059215.20181126
- Date of decision
- 26 November 2018
- Case number
- T 0592/15
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 07813483.0
- IPC class
- C01D 7/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- POLYMERIC CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES WITH INTERPHASE REGION
- Applicant name
- Bridgestone Corporation
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 76(1)European Patent Convention R 36(1)European Patent Convention R 43(2)(c)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
- Keywords
- Oral proceedings - held in absence of appellant
Main and auxiliary requests include three independent method claims - appellant's burden to show compliance with Rule 43(2) EPC (yes)
Late-filed requests
Late-filed request - introduce new objections (yes)
Late-filed request - admitted (no)
Request to postpone the taking of the decision on the allowability of the appeal at least until a divisional application is filed (refused) - Catchword
- A request to postpone the taking of the decision on the allowability of an appeal at least until a divisional application is filed would oblige a board to examine questions outside of the framework of the appeal concerned and is therefore to be refused (see Reasons 4 to 4.5).
- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.