T 0429/98 (Refrigerator oil/ASAHI DENKA) of 27.11.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T042998.20011127
- Date of decision
- 27 November 2001
- Case number
- T 0429/98
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91302494.9
- IPC class
- C10M 69/04
- 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
- Refrigerator oil composition
- Applicant name
- ASAHI DENKA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Opponent name
- Cognis Deutschland GmbH
- Board
- 3.3.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 111(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 113(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(4) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 89 1973European Patent Convention R 57a 1973European Patent Convention R 71(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Main and first auxiliary request : inventive step (no) - obvious solution
Second auxiliary request: inventive step (yes) - non obvious solution. - Catchword
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- Citing 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 set of five claims for the Contracting States DE, DK, GB and IT and the set of five claims for the other Contracting States, both filed as annex 2 (second auxiliary request) with the letter dated 30 December 1998 and a description yet to be adapted.