T 0331/24 (Steel Strip/Tata) of 29.09.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T033124.20250929
- Date of decision
- 29 September 2025
- Case number
- T 0331/24
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14716760.5
- IPC class
- C22C 38/00C21D 1/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- PRODUCT FORMED BY HOT FORMING OF METALLIC COATED STEEL SHEET, METHOD TO FORM THE PRODUCT, AND STEEL STRIP
- Applicant name
- Tata Steel IJmuiden B.V.
- Opponent name
- ArcelorMittal
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG - Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- Keywords
- Amendments - allowable (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Inventive step - (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 with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the main request, submitted as auxiliary request 1 with the reply to the appeal, and the description to be adapted.