T 1156/23 (Vehicle window glass / Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited) of 02.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T115623.20251202
- Date of decision
- 2 December 2025
- Case number
- T 1156/23
- Online on
- 19 March 2026
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 16196064.6
- IPC class
- H01Q 1/12H01Q 5/30H01Q 5/321
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- VEHICLE WINDOW GLASS
- Applicant name
- Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited
- Opponent name
- AGC Glass Europe
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 123(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Novelty objection not considered in opposition
Novelty - considered on appeal
Main Request - Novelty (no)
Auxiliary request 1-1 - amendment within Art 12(4) RPBA - considered (yes) - objections to it considered (yes) - inventive step (no) - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request 2 - amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Auxiliary requests 1-2, 1-3, and 1-4 - amendment within Art 12(4) RPBA - considered (no) - 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 patent is revoked.