T 0570/96 of 20.08.1998
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1998:T057096.19980820
- Date of decision
- 20 August 1998
- Case number
- T 0570/96
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 89301185.8
- IPC class
- C08L 33/26
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Polymeric compositions and their production
- Applicant name
- Allied Colloids Limited
- Opponent name
- S.N.F. S.A.
- Board
- 3.3.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 114(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 64 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - change of category - refused
First, second and third auxiliary requests - filed late - not clearly allowable - Catchword
- The admissibility of late-filed requests depends upon the general principle applied in case T 0153/85, that it is for the public good that legal conflicts be brought to an early close. Decision T 0153/85 was merely a specific application of that principle, by providing for a stricter scrutiny for allowability of all late filed requests: the later they are filed the more clearly allowable they must be. At such a late stage all the accumulated objections under the EPC must be taken into account.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.