T 1283/22 (Circuit Breaker) of 16.10.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T128322.20251016
- Date of decision
- 16 October 2025
- Case number
- T 1283/22
- Online on
- 10 February 2026
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14197126.7
- IPC class
- H01H 1/025H01H 1/22
- 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
- Static contact support for circuit breaker and circuit breaker thereof
- Applicant name
- Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Opponent name
- Eaton Industries GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- 14. BayIfSMV15. BayIfSMVCA79/20European Patent Convention Art 113(1)European Patent Convention Art 116European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention R 117OJ EPO 2020, A 121OJ EPO 2020, A 122OJ EPO 2020, A 135
- Keywords
- Novelty - main request and auxiliary requests I-VI (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request VIII (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary request VII (no) - Catchword
- While the amending of Rule 117 EPC may have been occasioned by a particular situation (in this case the pandemic), the wording of Rule 117 EPC does not limit its application to a pandemic or similar exceptional situation. It thus applies irrespective of whether the situation which occasioned its amendment persists or not (Reasons 2.3.2 (a)).
The board is not aware of any statement by the Enlarged Board in G 1/21 that would be even indirectly - let alone directly - applicable to hearing a witness. (Reasons 2.3.2 (e)). - 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 for further prosecution.