T 0410/99 (Kraft pulp preparation/METSO) of 20.01.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T041099.20030120
- Date of decision
- 20 January 2003
- Case number
- T 0410/99
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 91903366.2
- IPC class
- D21C 3/02
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Process for preparing kraft pulp
- Applicant name
- Metso Chemical Pulping Oy
- Opponent name
- Kvaerner Pulping AB
- Board
- 3.3.06
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Clarity (main request, first and second auxiliary request) - no: wording of amended claim 1 not clear itself
Novelty (third and fifth auxiliary request) - no: all features of the claimed process are directly and unambiguously derivable from the cited prior art - Catchword
- "If there is no evidence or reason for considering the explicit teaching of a prior art document as incomplete or wrong or giving rise to doubts about the results obtained, a party's allegation that a skilled person would have understood additional but undescribed features to be a necessary part of such prior art teaching cannot be accepted (point 3.2.6 of the Reasons for the Decision)"
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.