T 0108/23 (Ecolab/Dishwashing) of 09.09.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T010823.20250909
- Date of decision
- 9 September 2025
- Case number
- T 0108/23
- Online on
- 16 September 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 13783322.4
- 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
- METHODS FOR REMOVING SOILS FROM SURFACES
- Applicant name
- Ecolab USA Inc.
- Opponent name
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 84
- Keywords
- Amendments - allowable (no)
Amendments - deletion of features (yes)
Amendments - Auxiliary request
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Claims - support in the description (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 in amended form in the following version:
Description: Pages 2, 4 and 6 to 17 of the patent specification and amended pages 3 and 5 filed during oral proceedings on 9 September 2025.
Claims: No. 1 to 11 according to the second auxiliary request filed as annex to the reply dated 6 July 2023.
Drawings: Fig. 1 of the patent specification.