T 0230/07 (Colloidal binder/PAROC) du 05.05.2010
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2010:T023007.20100505
- Date de la décision
- 5 mai 2010
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0230/07
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 01947491.5
- Classe de la CIB
- B01J 13/00
- 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
- Method for the preparation of a colloidal silicate dispersion
- Nom du demandeur
- Paroc Oy Ab
- Nom de l'opposant
- ROCKWOOL INTERNATIONAL A/S
- Chambre
- 3.3.05
- Sommaire
Novelty and inventive step are two distinct requirements for the patentability of an invention and therefore different criteria should apply for their assessment. So, when assessing novelty of an invention, the presence or absence of a technical effect within a sub-range of numerical values is not to be taken into account in the assessment of novelty.
For establishing novelty of a sub-range of numerical values from a broader range, the selected sub-range should be narrow and sufficiently far removed from the known broader range illustrated by means of examples. A sub-range is not rendered novel by virtue of a newly discovered effect occurring within it.
Reasons 4.1.6.
- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- Mots-clés
- Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (yes): non-obvious alternative - Exergue
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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 in amended form on the basis of claims 1 to 19 of the new main request filed at the oral proceedings, and a description to be adapted accordingly.