T 0213/24 (Glass/AGC) of 08.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T021324.20251208
- Date of decision
- 8 December 2025
- Case number
- T 0213/24
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 17739997.9
- 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
- GLASS FOR AUTONOMOUS CAR
- Applicant name
- AGC Glass Europe
- Opponent name
- SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC
Pilkington Group Limited - Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of disclosure - main request and first auxiliary request
Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 1.1
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 0.1
Inventive step - (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 1.1
Inventive step - combination invention
Inventive step - (yes)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 1800/21
- 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 auxiliary request 1.1 as submitted on 28 November 2025 and the description to be adapted.