T 0571/22 of 05.03.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T057122.20240305
- Date of decision
- 5 March 2024
- Case number
- T 0571/22
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14866904.7
- 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
- BILAYER CHROMIUM NITRIDE COATED ARTICLES AND RELATED METHODS
- Applicant name
- Vergason Technology Inc.
- Opponent name
- Motherson Innovations Company Limited
- Board
- 3.2.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
- Keywords
- Late-filed evidence - admitted in first-instance proceedings (no)
Late-filed evidence - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (no)
Late-filed evidence - error in use of discretion at first instance (no)
Late-filed evidence - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Amendments - disclosure in drawings
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - support by the description (yes)
Novelty - multiple selection
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes) - Catchword
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- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.