T 1628/21 du 06.02.2024
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T162821.20240206
- Date de la décision
- 6 février 2024
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 1628/21
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 08755445.7
- Classe de la CIB
- A41D 13/00
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents des chambres de recours (C)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
- Résumé de EPC2000 Art 069
- Titre de la demande
- ARTICLES OF APPAREL PROVIDING ENHANCED BODY POSITION FEEDBACK
- Nom du demandeur
- NIKE Innovate C.V.
- Nom de l'opposant
- ADIDAS AG
- Chambre
- 3.2.06
- Sommaire
- -
- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- EPC2000_Prot Interpretation Article 69European Patent Convention Art 111(1) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 54 (2007)European Patent Convention Art 56 (2007)European Patent Convention Art 69 (2007)
- Mots-clés
- Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - interpretation of claims
Novelty - application of Article 69 EPC
Remittal - special reasons for remittal - Exergue
- With regard to the question of compatibility of certain principles of claim interpretation for the purposes of considering novelty or inventive step with Article 69 EPC, reference is made to Reasons 1.1.11 to 1.1.16.
The principle of primacy of the claims seems to exclude the use of the description and drawings for limiting the claims if an interpretation of the claim in the light of common general knowledge already leads to a technically meaningful result. Similarly, the principle, established by case law, according to which "limiting features which are only present in the description and not in the claim cannot be read into a patent claim" is also fully compatible with Article 69 EPC and Article 1 of the Protocol.
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the opposition division for further prosecution.