T 0018/98 of 21.12.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T001898.20001221
- Date of decision
- 21 December 2000
- Case number
- T 0018/98
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 91310488.1
- IPC class
- A61G 7/005
- 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
- Beds
- Applicant name
- HUNTLEIGH TECHNOLOGY PLC
- Opponent name
- Hill-Rom GmbH
Intervener I: Scandinavian Mobility EC-Hng A/S
Intervener II: Scandinavian Mobility UK Limited
Intervener III: LINAK A/S - Board
- 3.2.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973European Patent Convention Art 104(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 105(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 114(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Three interventions under Article 105 EPC (two refused, one admissible)
Disclosure of invention (sufficient - general knowledge of a skilled person)
Apportionment of costs (refused)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (no) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0296/93
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The intervention filed in the name of Scandinavian Mobility EC-Hng A/S is deemed not to have been filed and, as a consequence, the opposition fee and the appeal fee paid for this intervention are reimbursed.
2. The intervention filed in the name of Scandinavian Mobility UK Ltd is admissible.
3. The intervention filed in the name of Linak A/S is rejected as inadmissible.
4. The request for referral of a question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal is refused.
5. The requests for different apportionment of costs are refused.
6. The decision under appeal is set aside.
7. European patent No. 488 552 is revoked.