T 1937/23 (Urea production plant/CASALE) of 28.11.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T193723.20251128
- Date of decision
- 28 November 2025
- Case number
- T 1937/23
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 18719213.3
- IPC class
- C07C 273/16C07C 273/04
- 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
- PROCESS AND PLANT FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF UREA
- Applicant name
- Casale SA
- Opponent name
- Stamicarbon B.V.
- Board
- 3.3.09
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(1)
- Keywords
- Main request: novelty and inventive step - (yes)
Consultation of the description and the drawings of the patent when interpreting the claims for assessing patentability requirements (reasons 1.10 to 1.12) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- G 0001/24
- 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 on the basis of the following documents:
- claims 1 to 12 according to the main request (originally filed as auxiliary request 1 by letter dated 25 April 2022)
- description: paragraphs 2 to 28 and 30 to 60 of the patent specification and paragraphs 1 and 29 as submitted in the oral proceedings before the board
- drawings: Figures 1 to 3 of the patent specification