T 0725/23 (LINDE / HYDROGEN LIQUEFACTION) of 17.06.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T072523.20250617
- Date of decision
- 17 June 2025
- Case number
- T 0725/23
- Online on
- 24 July 2025
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16798415.2
- 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
- METHOD USING HYDROGEN-NEON MIXTURE REFRIGERATION CYCLE FOR LARGE-SCALE HYDROGEN COOLING AND LIQUEFACTION
- Applicant name
- Linde GmbH
- Opponent name
- L'AIR LIQUIDE, Société Anonyme pour L'étude et L'exploitation des procédés Georges Claude
- Board
- 3.3.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
- Keywords
- Main request (filed as auxiliary request 2 before the opposition division) - admissibly raised and maintained (yes)
Main request - Novelty - (yes) - Inventive Step (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious alternative - 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 in amended form with claims 1 to 14 of the main request, filed as auxiliary request 2 with the letter dated 14 December 2023, and a description and drawings possibly adapted thereto.