T 0201/22 of 06.03.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T020122.20240306
- Date of decision
- 6 March 2024
- Case number
- T 0201/22
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 05822927.9
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- A method of manufacturing a fibre-reinforced part for a wind power plant
- Applicant name
- LM Wind Power A/S
- Opponent name
- ENERCON GmbH
- Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
- Keywords
- Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (yes)
Inventive step (main request, auxiliary requests 1, 1a, 2 to 8: no; auxiliary request 10: yes)
Late-filed request - admitted in first-instance proceedings (no)
Late-filed request - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (auxiliary requests 1a and 10: yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (auxiliary request 10: no)
Sufficiency of disclosure (auxiliary request 10: yes)
Novelty (auxiliary request 10: yes)
Claims - support in the description (auxiliary request 10: examination not possible in view of decision G 3/14) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- G 0003/14
- 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 as amended in the following version:
- Claims: claims 1 to 9 of auxiliary request 10 filed with the patent proprietor's statement of grounds of appeal,
- Description:
- paragraphs [0001] to [0021] and [0023] to [0032] of the patent specification,
- paragraph [0022] filed during the oral proceedings before the opposition division on 1 April 2021,
- Drawings: sheets 1/1 and 2/2 of the patent specification.