T 1144/23 of 07.08.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T114423.20250807
- Date of decision
- 7 August 2025
- Case number
- T 1144/23
- Online on
- 13 October 2025
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 10837603.9
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- BLOOD PURIFICATION APPARATUS
- Applicant name
- Nikkiso Company Limited
- Opponent name
- B. Braun Avitum AG
- Board
- 3.2.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 100(c)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)
- Keywords
- Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Inventive step - main request and auxiliary request 1 (no)
- auxiliary request 2 (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 as amended in the following version:
- claims 1 to 3 of auxiliary request 2 filed on
27 April 2022
- description paragraphs 1 to 9, 13 to 16, 18 to 46 and
50 to 52 of the patent specification; and 10, 11, 17
and 47 to 49 filed during the oral proceedings on
7 August 2025
- the drawings of the patent specification