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
- -
- Application number
- 05783838.5
- IPC class
- B27N 5/00B29C 67/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Method for manufacturing products based on wood powder
- Applicant name
- L3F Sweden AB
- Opponent name
- voxeljet AG
- Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
- -
- 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
- -
- Cited cases
- T 2350/15
- 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 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.