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
- -
- Application number
- 18195507.1
- IPC class
- G05D 23/00E03D 9/08G05D 9/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- SANITARY WASHING DEVICE
- Applicant name
- TOTO LTD.
- Opponent name
- Geberit International AG
- Board
- 3.2.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56
- 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
- -
- Cited cases
- G 0001/99G 0001/03G 0003/08T 0409/91T 0939/92T 2284/15T 2729/18T 2773/18T 1473/19T 0092/21
- Citing cases
- T 0824/23
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.