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)
- Download
- Decision in English
- 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
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- 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.