T 0525/96 (Homogenisation/UNILEVER) of 11.08.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T052596.20000811
- Date of decision
- 11 August 2000
- Case number
- T 0525/96
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 90203451.1
- IPC class
- A23L 1/19
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- 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
- Non-dairy creams
- Applicant name
- UNILEVER N.V., et al
- Opponent name
- Stichting Behartiging Octrooibelangen
- Board
- 3.3.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 55(c) 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - inventive step (no): obvious alternative process
First auxiliary request - power of the board to examine a product-by-process claim not explicitly opposed (yes)
Inventive step: (no)
Second auxiliary request - not object of opposition - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- G 0009/91
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 maintain the patent as amended in the following version:
Claims: 1 to 12,
Description: columns 1 to 4, both as submitted during oral proceedings, and
Drawings: Figures 1 to 3 as granted.