T 2610/22 of 04.09.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T261022.20250904
- Date of decision
- 4 September 2025
- Case number
- T 2610/22
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 16182474.3
- IPC class
- H01L 31/078H01L 31/18
- 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
- FOUR JUNCTION SOLAR CELL FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
- Applicant name
- SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Opponent name
- AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- 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)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Amendment to case - objection admissibly raised and maintained during first instance proceedings (no)
Late-filed evidence - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Late-filed evidence - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - ex post facto analysis
Inventive step - non-obvious modification - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 2730/16
- Citing cases
- -
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.