T 1070/23 (Floating voltage suppression/SUNGROW) of 09.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T107023.20251209
- Date of decision
- 9 December 2025
- Case number
- T 1070/23
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 15174376.2
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
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- Decision in English
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- Application title
- FLOATING VOLTAGE SUPPRESSION IN A PV-INVERTER
- Applicant name
- Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
- Opponent name
- SMA Solar Technology AG
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Novelty - (main request
Novelty - no, auxiliary request
Novelty - yes)
Inventive step - (auxiliary request
Inventive step - no) - Catchword
- A single technical feature not disclosed in the prior art is sufficient to confer novelty to a claim, independent of its technical effect (concept of "photographic novelty"). The technical effect is only relevant for the assessment of inventive step (see reasons, point 13).
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.