T 0392/97 of 20.04.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T039297.19990420
- Date of decision
- 20 April 1999
- Case number
- T 0392/97
- Online on
- 3 November 1999
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 86402654.7
- IPC class
- F16J 15/08
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- No OJ links found
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Metallic gasket
- Applicant name
- Nihon Metal Gasket Kabushiki Kaisha
- Opponent name
- Ishikawa Gasket Co. Ltd.
REINZ-Dichtungs-GmbH
Meillor S.A.
Freudenberg & Co. - Board
- 3.2.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- EPC1973_Art_105(1)_Sent_2European Patent Convention Art 112(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 71(1) 1973
- Keywords
- Request for postponing appointed oral proceedings (refused)
Admissibility of intervention under Article 105(1) second sentence EPC (denied)
No request from the patentee that the intended interveners cease their alleged infringement
Referral of questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (no) - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The interventions are rejected as inadmissible.
2. The decision under appeal is set aside.
3. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of claim 1 submitted at the oral proceedings, claims 2 to 7, description and drawings as maintained according to the decision under appeal.