T 0608/23 of 18.07.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T060823.20250718
- Date of decision
- 18 July 2025
- Case number
- T 0608/23
- Online on
- 30 September 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14896254.1
- 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
- ORBITAL TENSIONER ASSEMBLY
- Applicant name
- Litens Automotive Partnership
- Opponent name
- WijnstraWise Patents B.V.
- Board
- 3.2.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention Art 123(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)
- Keywords
- Novelty - (no)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary request (no)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Amendment to case - amendment admitted (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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: Columns 1 to 14 filed with the letter of 22 May 2023
- Claims: No. 1 to 9 according to auxiliary request 10 filed with the letter of 22 May 2023
- Drawings: Figures 1 to 32 of the patent specification.