T 0035/19 of 18.03.2022
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T003519.20220318
- Date of decision
- 18 March 2022
- Case number
- T 0035/19
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 05761316.8
- IPC class
- F16C 41/02F16C 27/04F16C 33/38F16C 19/38F03D 1/06F03D 80/70F16C 23/08F03D 7/02F16C 33/60F16C 19/08
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- A WIND TURBINE PITCH BEARING, AND USE HEREOF
- Applicant name
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Opponent name
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Board
- 3.2.08
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 104(1)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
- Keywords
- Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes)
Novelty - main request and auxiliary requests 1 and 2
Novelty - (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Amendment after summons - cogent reasons (no)
Apportionment of costs - equitable - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- G 0002/10
- 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 patent in the following version:
- claims 1 to 27 of auxiliary request 3 filed on
22 February 2019,
- description: Columns 1 to 10 of the description
filed at the oral proceedings before the Board,
- drawings: figures 1 to 15 of the patent
specification.
3. The request to set aside the decision on the apportionment of costs is rejected.