T 0557/22 of 15.03.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T055722.20240315
- Date of decision
- 15 March 2024
- Case number
- T 0557/22
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16739543.3
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- DENTAL MATERIALS USING THERMOSET POLYMERS
- Applicant name
- Align Technology, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Vossius & Partner
Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB - Board
- 3.3.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(1)
- Keywords
- New documents submitted on appeal - no proper justification - admitted (no)
Main Request - extension of subject-matter beyond the content of the application as filed - dependent claims 2 to 5 and independent claim 10 (no)
sufficiency of disclosure - dependent claim 5 (no) dependent claim 6 (yes)
inventive step - obvious modification (yes)
Auxiliary request 1 - sufficiency of disclosure - claim 5 (no)
Auxiliary requests 1 to 11 - inventive step (no) obvious modification
Auxiliary request 12 - inventive step (yes) non obvious modification - hindsight - Catchword
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- Citing cases
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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 with the claims of auxiliary request 12 filed with letter of 19 February 2024 after any necessary consequential amendments of the description.