T 0133/92 (Bleaching activators/AKZO) du 18.10.1994
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T013392.19941018
- Date de la décision
- 18 octobre 1994
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0133/92
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 86200688.9
- Classe de la CIB
- C07C 143/44
- 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
- P-sulphophenyl alkyl carbonates and their use as bleaching activators
- Nom du demandeur
- Akzo Nobel N.V.
- Nom de l'opposant
- Unilever PLC/Unilever N.V.
- Chambre
- 3.3.01
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 113(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 125 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Mots-clés
- Novelty (no; for main and first auxiliary request) - selection of a group of compounds
Novelty (yes; second auxiliary request) - selection of individualised compounds
Inventive step (yes)
Right to be heard (yes) - decision based on new claims filed during oral proceedings at which the Opponent was not represented
Not new fact: G 4/92 distinguished
Principle of legal certainty: Art. 125 EPC - Exergue
- A claimed group of compounds essentially resulting from omitting those parts of a larger group of compounds which a skilled person would have immediately considered as being less interesting than the rest, cannot be selectively novel.
- Affaires citées
- G 0004/92
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 with the order to maintain the patent with the claims as submitted during the oral proceedings as auxiliary request A, after corresponding amendments of the description.