T 2632/18 (ON/OFF triggering event/SMAPPEE) of 15.02.2022
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T263218.20220215
- Date of decision
- 15 February 2022
- Case number
- T 2632/18
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 14733605.1
- IPC class
- H04Q 9/00H02J 13/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Energy management system
- Applicant name
- Smappee NV
- Opponent name
- Dieckhoff, Beate
- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - main request and 1st auxiliary request (no): obvious selection from equally likely alternatives
Admittance of claim request filed after summons - 2nd auxiliary request (no): no exceptional circumstances - Catchword
- That a "new" objection was raised by a board in appeal proceedings
cannot
per se
amount to "exceptional circumstances" within the meaning of Article 13(2) RPBA 2020 (see point 4.3 of the Reasons).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.