T 0341/24 of 27.05.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T034124.20250527
- Date of decision
- 27 May 2025
- Case number
- T 0341/24
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 19203544.2
- IPC class
- B65D 47/20B65D 51/24B65D 1/32
- 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
- NON-DRIP UPSIDE DOWN BOTTLES
- Applicant name
- The Procter & Gamble Company
- Opponent name
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Jones, Bruce - Board
- 3.2.07
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(3)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(5)
- Keywords
- Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (no)
Novelty - public prior use (yes)
Novelty - prior disclosure
Novelty - implicit features (no)
Reply to statement of grounds of appeal - reasons set out clearly and concisely (no)
Discretion not to admit submission - requirements of Art. 12(3) RPBA 2020 met (no)
Discretion not to admit submission - submission admitted (no)
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 patent is maintained as granted.