T 0274/23 of 23.01.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T027423.20250123
- Date of decision
- 23 January 2025
- Case number
- T 0274/23
- Online on
- 31 March 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16725911.8
- IPC class
- B65D 85/10B65D 75/58
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- 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
- PACKET OF SMOKE ARTICLES
- Applicant name
- G.D S.p.A.
- Opponent name
- Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
Philip Morris Products S.A. - Board
- 3.2.07
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention R 80Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 011Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendment occasioned by ground for opposition - amendments allowable (yes)
Amendments - extension of the protection conferred (no)
Late-filed objection - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Late-filed objection - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (no) - 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
for further prosecution.