T 0463/22 of 15.01.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T046322.20240115
- Date of decision
- 15 January 2024
- Case number
- T 0463/22
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 10793150.3
- IPC class
- A24F 47/00
- 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
- AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING SYSTEM WITH INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL HEATER
- Applicant name
- Philip Morris Products S.A.
- Opponent name
- JT International S.A.
Nicoventures Trading Limited - Board
- 3.2.01
- 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 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 84Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)
- Keywords
- Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request 1-3 (yes)
Novelty - main request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary requests 1-2 (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Late-filed argument - admitted (yes)
Claims - clarity (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- G 0003/14
- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The decision under appeal is set aside.
The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents:
- claims 1-12 of auxiliary request 3 filed with the reply to the grounds of appeal dated 22 September 2022,
- description: columns 1-6 and 9-10 submitted during oral proceedings and columns 7, 8, and 11-19 according to the patent specification, and
- figures 1-11 of the patent as granted.