T 0097/98 (Spinning process/MINNTECH) of 21.05.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T009798.20010521
- Date of decision
- 21 May 2001
- Case number
- T 0097/98
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 92910588.0
- IPC class
- B01D 39/16
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
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- Decision in English
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Fiber spinning process and product thereof
- Applicant name
- MINNTECH CORPORATION
- Opponent name
- Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
- Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
Correction of the name of the appellant to substitute a natural or legal person other than the one indicated in the appeal is allowable under Rule 65(2) EPC in conjunction with Rule 64(a) EPC, if it was the true intention to file the appeal in the name of said person and if it could be derived from the information in the appeal, if necessary with the help of other information on file, with a sufficient degree of probability that the appeal should have been filed in the name of that person (point 1 of the reasons).
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973European Patent Convention Art 107 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 26(2)(c) 1973European Patent Convention R 64(a) 1973European Patent Convention R 65(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of the appeal (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty and inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.