T 0492/92 (Liquid detergent compositions/ALBRIGHT & WILSON) of 18.01.1996

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T049292.19960118
Date of decision: 18 January 1996
Case number: T 0492/92
Petition for review of: -
Application number: 85108260.2
IPC class: C11D 17/00
Language of proceedings: English
Distribution: Distributed to board chairmen (C)
Download: Decision in English
OJ versions: No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case: -
Abstracts for this decision: -
Application title: Liquid detergent compositions
Applicant name: Albright & Wilson Limited
Opponent name: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
Colgate-Palmolive Company
PROCTER & GAMBEL E.T.C.
RHONE-POULENC CHEMIE
Unilever N.V.
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions: European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973 European Patent Convention Art 56 1973 European Patent Convention Art 83 1973
Keywords: Amendment allowable - implicit disclosure of a limiting functional feature
Sufficiency acknowledged - no necessity to specify one of the several available analytical methods
Inventive step (yes) - non-obvious improvement
Amendments - added subject matter (no)
Disclosure - sufficiency - measuring method
Inventive step (yes)
Catchword: -
Cited cases: -
Citing cases: T 0378/97 T 0960/98 T 0485/00 T 0619/00 T 0466/05 T 2403/11 T 1035/19 T 1543/19 T 1221/21

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 with the claims 1 to 55 submitted during oral proceedings and a description to be adapted.