T 0558/23 of 20.02.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T055823.20250220
- Date of decision
- 20 February 2025
- Case number
- T 0558/23
- Online on
- 14 March 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 09703583.6
- 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
- ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF AN ANIMAL
- Applicant name
- DeLaval Holding AB
- Opponent name
- Octrooibureau Van der Lely N.V.
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
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- 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)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Late-filed objection - admitted (no) - Catchword
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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 as amended in the following version:
Description:
Paragraphs 1 to 8, 10 to 13, 15 to 19, 21 to 36, 38 to 51 of the patent specification
Paragraphs 9, 14, 20 and 37 according to the seventh auxiliary request filed with the letter of 25 May 2023
Claims:
No. 1 to 11 according to the seventh auxiliary request filed with the letter of 16 May 2023
Drawings:
Figures 1 to 4 of the patent specification.