T 0157/98 of 04.10.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T015798.20001004
- Date of decision
- 4 October 2000
- Case number
- T 0157/98
- Online on
- 19 April 2001
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 88310583.5
- IPC class
- B29C 45/17
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Method for injection molding, apparatus therefor and moldings producted thereby
- Applicant name
- Ladney, Michael
- Opponent name
- Battenfeld GmbH
Cinpres Limited - Board
- 3.2.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973
- Keywords
- Amendment (main request inadmissible)
Sufficiency (yes)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the following documents:
(a) claim 1 filed on 5 October 1998 as auxiliary request and claims 2 to 9 as granted;
(b) description as granted with the following amendments:
(i) the text on page 3, column 4, lines 18 to 57 is to be replaced by the following text: "uct as claimed in claim 1"; and
(ii) the words "can be" on page 6, column 10, line 18 are to be replaced by the word "is"; and
(c) drawings 1/1 as granted.