T 0187/95 (Separator/Gasunie) of 03.02.1997
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1997:T018795.19970203
- Date of decision
- 3 February 1997
- Case number
- T 0187/95
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 90203135.0
- IPC class
- B01D 45/16B04C 5/10
- 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
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Device for separating liquids and/or solids from a gas stream
- Applicant name
- N. V. NEDERLANDSE GASUNIE
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 113(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 67 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes - after amendment)
Substantial procedural violation (yes) - meaning of the term 'grounds' in Article 113(1) - reimbursement of appeal fee (yes) - Catchword
- The term 'grounds' in Article 113(1) EPC means the essential reasoning on which the Examining Division has based its decision.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following application documents as agreed by the Board of Appeal:
Claims: 1 to 9 as filed with the letter dated 12. September 1996;
Description: pages 1, 1A, 2, 2A, 3, 4, 4A, 5, 5A and 6 as filed with the letter dated 12. September 1996, whereby the passage ", in which bottom ... beneath said plate" on page 1, lines 16 to 21 is deleted;
Drawings: sheets 1/2 and 2/2 as originally filed.
3. The request for reimbursement of the appeal fee is allowed.