T 0487/23 (Control circuits for induction heating devices/ Whirlpool) of 17.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T048723.20251217
- Date of decision
- 17 December 2025
- Case number
- T 0487/23
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 19168553.6
- IPC class
- H05B 6/06
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- CONTROL CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED INDUCTION HEATING DEVICES
- Applicant name
- Whirlpool Corporation
- Opponent name
- Electrolux Rothenburg GmbH Factory and Development
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention R 103(4)(c)European Patent Convention R 80
- Keywords
- Novelty - main request (no), auxiliary request 1 (no), auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Amendment occasioned by ground for opposition - auxiliary request 1 (yes)
Partial reimbursement of appeal fee - request for oral proceedings withdrawn (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0488/18
- Citing cases
- -
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appeals are dismissed.
2. 25% of both appeal fees are to be reimbursed.