T 0406/23 of 21.03.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T040623.20250321
- Date of decision
- 21 March 2025
- Case number
- T 0406/23
- Online on
- 9 April 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16195370.8
- IPC class
- C08B 11/20C08L 1/28C08B 11/08
- 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
- POROUS WATER-SOLUBLE NONIONIC CELLULOSE ETHER HAVING EXCELLENT SOLUBILITY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
- Applicant name
- Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Opponent name
- DuPont Nutrition Biosciences ApS
- Board
- 3.3.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Amendment to case - amendment admitted (yes)
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Novelty - availability to the public
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes) - Catchword
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.