T 1935/22 (Unilever/Fabric conditioning) of 28.03.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T193522.20250328
- Date of decision
- 28 March 2025
- Case number
- T 1935/22
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 16802071.7
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- FABRIC CONDITIONING COMPOSITION
- Applicant name
- 1. Unilever IP Holdings B.V.
2. Unilever Global IP Limited - Opponent name
- 1. Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
2. The Procter & Gamble Company - Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European 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
- Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Late-filed evidence - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (no)
Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes)
Late-filed request - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 2017/07
- Citing cases
- -
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 in amended form with the set of claims of auxiliary request 3 filed with the reply of 1 March 2023, and a description to be adapted.