T 1024/18 of 01.03.2022
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T102418.20220301
- Date of decision
- 1 March 2022
- Case number
- T 1024/18
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 12183745.4
- IPC class
- A61F 13/15
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Apparatus and method for forming absorbent cores
- Applicant name
- Curt G. Joa, Inc.
- Opponent name
- GDM S.p.A.
- Board
- 3.2.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 84
- Keywords
- Novelty - public prior use
Novelty - obligation to maintain secrecy (no)
Amendments - auxiliary requests 1 and 3
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Claims - support in the description (no) - Catchword
- Necessity to adapt the description (Reasons 3)
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The patent is revoked.