European Patent Office

T 0760/23 (Baker Hughes/Heavy residual crude oil) of 13.06.2025

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T076023.20250613
Date of decision
13 June 2025
Case number
T 0760/23
Petition for review of
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Application number
13852048.1
IPC class
C10G 75/04
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
PROCESS FOR REDUCING THE VISCOSITY OF HEAVY RESIDUAL CRUDE OIL DURING REFINING
Applicant name
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
Opponent name
Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
Board
3.3.06
Headnote
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Keywords
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Catchword
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Citing 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 in amended form on the basis of the claims of auxiliary request 2 filed on 22 February 2021, and a description to be adapted where appropriate.