T 0753/22 (Location-based safety rules/3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES) of 12.05.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T075322.20250512
- Date of decision
- 12 May 2025
- Case number
- T 0753/22
- Online on
- 22 May 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 17922912.5
- 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
- CONTEXT-BASED PROGRAMMABLE SAFETY RULES FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
- Applicant name
- 3M Innovative Properties Company
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
- Keywords
- Novelty - triggering a safety rule tied to a work environment when a worker has entered it (no
Novelty - not novel)
Novelty - triggering the safety rule when the worker approaches the environment and reaches a threshold distance from it (no
Novelty - the claim covers the above non-novel scenario)
Inventive step - detecting the worker's position using GPS (no
Inventive step - obvious alternative) - Catchword
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.