T 0439/22 du 11.12.2025
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T043922.20251211
- Date de la décision
- 11 décembre 2025
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0439/22
- En ligne le
- 26 février 2026
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 14806330.8
- Classe de la CIB
- A24F 47/00A24D 1/00
- 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
- T 0439/22 Gathered sheet 2024-06-24T 0439/22 2024-06-24T 0439/22 2024-06-24
- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- HEATED AEROSOL GENERATING ARTICLE WITH THERMAL SPREADING WRAP
- Nom du demandeur
- Philip Morris Products S.A.
- Nom de l'opposant
- Yunnan Tobacco International Co., Ltd.
- Chambre
- 3.2.01
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Mots-clés
- Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (yes)
Interpretation of the claims in light of the description (yes)
Novelty - main request (no)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (yes)
Amendment after summons - cogent reasons (yes)
Amendments - patent amended in such a way as to extend the protection it confers (yes) - Exergue
- 1. In interpreting the language used in a claim, "consulting", "referring to", "using" and "taking into account" the description and figures are synonyms for the act of deriving the necessary information from the patent as a whole to understand which meaning a person skilled in the art would attribute to the terms used in the claim.
(see Reasons 2.3)
2. Claim interpretation is the result of both reading the claims and consulting the description and drawings as a unitary process (holistic approach taken by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in decision G 1/24).
(see Reasons 2.4)
3. In line with this approach, a person skilled in the art reading the claim in the context of the description and figures will try to take a definition found in the description at face value. As long as the definition is technically reasonable and complies with the overall teaching of the claims, description and figures, the skilled person will read terms in the claim in the sense of the definition, taking into account both the broadening and limiting aspects.
(see Reasons 3.4 and 6) - Affaires citées
- G 0001/24T 0400/94T 0860/08T 2284/09T 1964/10T 2758/18T 1473/19T 1735/19T 2405/19T 0169/20
- Affaires citantes
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The patent is revoked.
3. The request for apportionment of costs is rejected.