European Patent Office

T 0591/23 of 11.03.2025

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T059123.20250311
Date of decision
11 March 2025
Case number
T 0591/23
Petition for review of
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Application number
18195507.1
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
SANITARY WASHING DEVICE
Applicant name
TOTO LTD.
Opponent name
Geberit International AG
Board
3.2.03
Headnote
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Keywords
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - invention as claimed (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - solves the stated problem (not required)
Sufficiency of disclosure - over the whole claimed breadth (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - exclusion of non-working embodiments (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step (yes)
Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features (yes)
Inventive step - technicality of indirect measurement (yes)
Inventive step - exclusion of non-working embodiments (yes)
Inventive step - problem solved over the whole claimed breadth (yes)
Inventive step - reformulation of the technical problem (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious (yes)
Catchword
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Citing cases
T 0824/23

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.