T 0706/95 (Reduction of nitrogen-based pollutants/FUELTECH) of 22.05.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T070695.20000522
- Date of decision
- 22 May 2000
- Case number
- T 0706/95
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 86906556.5
- IPC class
- C01B 21/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Reduction of nitrogen-based pollutants through the use of urea solutions containing oxygenated hydrocarbon solvents
- Applicant name
- FUEL TECH, INC.
- Opponent name
- Noell-KRC Umwelttechnik GmbH
- Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Main and first auxiliary requests - novelty (no) - new use (no) - additional effect of a known process or use
Second, fifth and sixth auxiliary requests - amendment not allowable
Third and fourth auxiliary requests - obvious modifications - Catchword
- The discovery that the same known means lead to an additional effect when they are used for the same known purpose (i.e. known use) of reducing the concentration of nitrogen oxides in the same effluent cannot confer novelty to this known use (see point 2.5).
- Cited cases
- G 0002/88
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.