T 0667/23 (Aluminum Alloys/Arconic) of 20.02.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T066723.20250220
- Date of decision
- 20 February 2025
- Case number
- T 0667/23
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16884235.9
- IPC class
- C22C 21/02B22D 11/00
- 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
- NEW 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
- Applicant name
- Arconic Technologies LLC
- Opponent name
- Novelis Inc.
C-TEC CONSTELLIUM TECHNOLOGY CENTER /
CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH
Alvance Aluminium Duffel BV - Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- Keywords
- Novelty - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 1 (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (yes) - Catchword
- The concept that a claimed sub-range must be "narrow" compared to the known range and "sufficiently far removed" from any specific examples cannot be reconciled with direct and unambiguous disclosure (T 1688/20 followed).
- Cited cases
- T 0198/84T 0026/85T 0279/89T 0939/92T 1102/00T 0538/04T 0210/05T 0759/10T 0673/12T 0107/14T 0261/15T 2623/19T 1688/20T 0989/22
- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
Both appeals are dismissed.