T 2416/22 (Induction burner / Whirlpool) of 23.06.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T241622.20250623
- Date of decision
- 23 June 2025
- Case number
- T 2416/22
- Online on
- 1 July 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 17197662.4
- IPC class
- H05B 6/12
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- INDUCTION BURNER ELEMENT HAVING A PLURALITY OF SINGLE PIECE FRAMES
- Applicant name
- Whirlpool Corporation
- Opponent name
- Electrolux Rothenburg GmbH Factory and Development
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 123(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)
- Keywords
- Main Request, Auxiliary Request 1 - added subject-mater (yes)
Auxiliary Request 2 - admission (yes)
Auxiliary Request 2 - inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 on the basis of Auxiliary Request 2 as submitted with the reply to the appeal, a the description to be adapted to it, and the drawings of the patent.