T 0835/00 du 07.11.2002
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T083500.20021107
- Date de la décision
- 7 novembre 2002
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0835/00
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 94301107.2
- Classe de la CIB
- C08J 9/18
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Polypropylene resin expanded particles
- Nom du demandeur
- MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, et al
- Nom de l'opposant
- (01) BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen
(02) JSP Corporation - Chambre
- 3.3.03
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Mots-clés
- Inventive step (yes) - determination of closest prior art - breadth of claim
- Exergue
- A fatal defect of the choice, as a starting point for the application of the problem/solution method, of a disclosure in the state of the art from which no relevant technical problem can be formulated without inappropriate hindsight is that, without such hindsight, any attempt to establish a logical chain of considerations which could lead to the claimed invention inevitably gets stuck at the start, for want of a relevant identifiable goal or object. If the relevant problem is not derivable, the measures for its solution are a fortiori not derivable. In other words, the invention is not obvious in the light of such art (cf. Reasons, point 4.4.5).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided:
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 Claims 1 to 4 of the main request filed with the submission dated 22 July 1998 and after any necessary consequential amendment of the description.