European Patent Office

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)
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
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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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.