T 1096/23 of 04.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T109623.20251204
- Date of decision
- 4 December 2025
- Case number
- T 1096/23
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 16704388.4
- IPC class
- G01G 19/387
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- CONTROLLED BATCH DISTRIBUTION
- Applicant name
- Marel A/S
- Opponent name
- Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG
MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG - Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 84Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Novelty - main request and auxiliary request 1 (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Amendments - auxiliary request 2
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Amendments - change of category
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 2 (yes) - Catchword
- When a complete granted dependent claim is incorporated into an independent claim of another category (here: method step -> method step carried out by an apparatus), then only the amendments related to the change of category can be examined for clarity under G3/14. (Grounds, 3.2.5)
- Cited cases
- G 0003/14
- Citing cases
- -
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeals are dismissed.