T 0111/24 of 10.01.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T011124.20250110
- Date of decision
- 10 January 2025
- Case number
- T 0111/24
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14815452.9
- IPC class
- F16M 7/00
- 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
- Cabinet Levelling Apparatus
- Applicant name
- Häfele SE & Co KG
- Opponent name
- Kunststoff Kommanditgesellschaft Nehl & Co
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG - Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention R 80Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 011Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)
- Keywords
- Compliance with Rule 80 EPC (yes: main request, auxiliary request 1)
Novelty (no: main request, auxiliary request 1; yes: auxiliary request 4)
Admittance of auxiliary requests (yes: 1; no: 2 and 3)
Admittance of document D20 (no)
Insufficiency of disclosure (no: auxiliary request 4)
Lack of clarity (no: auxiliary request 4)
Added subject-matter (no: auxiliary request 4)
Extension of protection (no: auxiliary request 4)
Inventive step (no: auxiliary request 4)
Remittal to the opposition division (yes) - Catchword
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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 for further prosecution.