T 0033/96 (Paraffin oil/UNILEVER) of 05.04.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T003396.20000405
- Date of decision
- 5 April 2000
- Case number
- T 0033/96
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 89200587.7
- IPC class
- C11D 3/18
- 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
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- Application title
- Detergent powders and process for preparing them
- Applicant name
- UNILEVER N.V., et al
- Opponent name
- Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
- Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Insufficiency of disclosure (inadmissible ground of appeal); ground not raised as opposition ground
Novelty - main request (yes); auxiliary request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no): problem not solved by all the embodiments of claim 1; - auxiliary request (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- G 0009/91
- 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 in amended form as follows:
Claims: 1 to 13 of the Amended First Auxiliary Request dated 5 April 2000.
Description: to be adapted thereto.