European Patent Office

T 0256/16 of 24.10.2022

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T025616.20221024
Date of decision
24 October 2022
Case number
T 0256/16
Petition for review of
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Application number
05783838.5
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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
Method for manufacturing products based on wood powder
Applicant name
L3F Sweden AB
Opponent name
voxeljet AG
Board
3.2.05
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 100(c)European Patent Convention Art 104(1)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)
Keywords
Admittance of documents D7 to D16 (no)
Admittance of auxiliary request 1 (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty and inventive step (yes)
Unallowable extension (yes: main request; no: auxiliary request 1)
Apportionment of costs (no)
Catchword
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Cited cases
T 2350/15
Citing cases
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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 opposition division with the order to maintain the European patent as amended in the following version:

- Claims: No. 1 to 20, filed as auxiliary request 1

on 22 January 2020;

- Description: paragraphs 1 to 37 of the patent specification;

- Drawings: Figs. 1a, 1b and 2 to 5 of the patent specification.

3. The request for apportionment of costs is refused.