T 1756/23 ("While" vs. "hence"/SONOVA) of 16.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T175623.20251216
- Date of decision
- 16 December 2025
- Case number
- T 1756/23
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 15707162.2
- IPC class
- H04R 25/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Method of mounting at least one hearing device component inside a hearing device shell and hearing device
- Applicant name
- Sonova AG
- Opponent name
- GN Hearing A/S
- Board
- 3.5.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Added subject-matter - third, sixth to fourteenth, seventeenth to twenty-second auxiliary requests (yes)
Extension of scope of protection - fourth, fifth, fifteenth and sixteenth auxiliary requests (yes)
Admittance of claim requests filed after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - twenty-third to thirtieth auxiliary requests (no): no "exceptional circumstances" - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- G 0001/93
- 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.