European Patent Office

T 0803/17 du 21.06.2022

Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T080317.20220621
Date de la décision
21 juin 2022
Numéro de l'affaire
T 0803/17
Requête en révision de
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Numéro de la demande
06709968.9
Classe de la CIB
A61B 19/00
Langue de la procédure
Anglais
Distribution
Non distribuées (D)
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
SURGICAL PLANNING
Nom du demandeur
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Depuy International Limited
Nom de l'opposant
Calibre Search Ltd.
Chambre
3.2.02
Sommaire
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Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
European Patent Convention Art 106(2)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention R 99(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
Mots-clés
Admissibility of appeal - appeal sufficiently substantiated (yes)
Admissibility of opposition
Appeal decision - extent of examination
Appeal decision - reformatio in peius
Late-filed evidence - submitted shortly before oral proceedings
Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Exergue
The yardstick for determining whether the position of an appellant is, because of its own appeal, worsened in a way which is incompatible with the principle of the prohibition of reformatio in peius is the order of the decision under appeal, in particular the order's legal effect on the appellant.
If an opposition is considered inadmissible in the appeal proceedings, an appellant whose opposition was rejected in the decision under appeal as unallowable would not be in a worse position than if it had not appealed, as in both cases the patent would be maintained as granted. The legal reasons leading to this result, including whether the opposition is rejected as inadmissible or unallowable, do not fall within the scope of the principle of the prohibition of reformatio in peius (Reasons 3.5).
Affaires citantes
T 0882/17T 0796/23

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.