European Patent Office

T 1250/23 of 24.03.2025

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T125023.20250324
Date of decision
24 March 2025
Case number
T 1250/23
Petition for review of
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Application number
18211522.0
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
MULTI-STRIP BEAM
Applicant name
Shape Corp.
Opponent name
Kirchhoff Automotive Deutschland GmbH
Board
3.2.01
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 112(1)(a)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 87(1)European Patent Convention Art 89Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
Keywords
Priority - validity of priority date of P1 (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary requests I, II (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 1d_2 (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious combination of known features
Amendment to case - amendment within meaning of Art. 12(4) RPBA 2020
Late-filed requests III, IV
Late-filed request - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no)
Catchword
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Citing cases
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeals are dismissed.