T 1943/15 of 21.10.2019
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T194315.20191021
- Date of decision
- 21 October 2019
- Case number
- T 1943/15
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 09796619.6
- IPC class
- E21B 17/042F16L 15/00F16L 15/06
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- 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
- Tubular connection with self locking threading used in the oil industry
- Applicant name
- Vallourec Oil and Gas France
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation - Opponent name
- Hydril Company
- Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - open-ended range (point 2.5)
Novelty (yes)
Novelty - dimensions from drawings (point 4)
Inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.