T 0025/99 (Refrigerating apparatus/HITACHI) of 15.05.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T002599.20020515
- Date of decision
- 15 May 2002
- Case number
- T 0025/99
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91119342.3
- IPC class
- C10M 105/38
- 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
- Refrigerating apparatus and refrigerant compressor
- Applicant name
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Opponent name
- Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
RWE- DEA Aktiengsellschaft für Mineraloel und Chemie
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
The Lubrizol Corporation - Board
- 3.3.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 3 - disclaimers not admissible as based on a non-novelty destroying disclosure - no inescapable trap - unwarranted advantage given to the patentee
Auxiliary request 4 - inventive step (no) - arbitrary selection - Catchword
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- Citing cases
- T 0525/99
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.