T 0503/98 of 05.07.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T050398.20010705
- Date of decision
- 5 July 2001
- Case number
- T 0503/98
- Online on
- 28 August 2001
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 90314235.4
- IPC class
- B01D 53/04
- 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
- Process and apparatus for recovering hydrocarbons from air-hydrocarbon vapor mixtures
- Applicant name
- John Zink Company, L. L. C.
- Opponent name
- Callidus Technologies, Inc.
Cool Sorption A/S - Board
- 3.3.05
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 123 1973
- Keywords
- Main request: inventive step (no) - obvious to try
Auxiliary request: inventive step (yes) - non obvious modification - Catchword
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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 opposition division with the order to maintain the patent with the following documents:
Claims 1 to 7 filed with letter dated 9 February 1998
Description and drawings to be adapted.