T 1523/23 (Display with reduced colour shift/TOPPAN PRINTING) du 13.10.2025
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T152323.20251013
- Date de la décision
- 13 octobre 2025
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 1523/23
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 17792774.6
- Classe de la CIB
- G09F 3/02G02B 5/18B42D 25/328G09F 19/12
- 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
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- Titre de la demande
- Display Body
- Nom du demandeur
- Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
- Nom de l'opposant
- Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
- Chambre
- 3.4.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 011
- Mots-clés
- Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (yes)
Inventive step - (no)
Inventive step - obvious alternative
Remittal - (yes) - Exergue
- 1. Holding oral proceedings before an opposition division by videoconference against the will of a party does not, as such, infringe that party's right to be heard, even in the absence of travel restrictions. Any alleged infringement must be substantiated by the specific circumstances of the individual case (see Reasons 2.1 to 2.7).
2. In the assessment of inventive step of a device, i.e. a physical artefact, advantages of the manufacturing process do not carry over to the claimed device itself. The relevant case law is that concerning product-by-process claims, not that in the field of chemistry relating to intermediate chemical compounds arising in a non-obvious chemical process (see Reasons 3.12 to 3.15). - Affaires citantes
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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 opposition division for further prosecution.