T 0253/95 du 17.12.1997
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:1997:T025395.19971217
- Date de la décision
- 17 décembre 1997
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0253/95
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 85105602.8
- Classe de la CIB
- C08F 279/04
- 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
- Modified impact-resistant vinyl-aromatic polymers
- Nom du demandeur
- Montedison S.p.A.
- Nom de l'opposant
- BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen
- Chambre
- 3.3.03
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Mots-clés
- Grounds of opposition - board as well as opponent entitled to raise new arguments based on grounds, facts and evidence already present in the proceedings
Amendments - added subject-matter (main and first auxiliary requests: yes; second auxiliary request: no)
Inventive step - (yes) no incentive to combine unobvious features - Exergue
- Alerting a party to a possible argument against him and on a ground on which the burden of proof rests on him, in advance of the oral proceedings, would amount to a clear violation of the principle of impartiality, irrespective of the fact that the communication setting out such an argument would also be sent to the other party.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The main and first auxiliary requests are dismissed.
3. The case is remitted to the Opposition Division with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the second auxiliary request and after any necessary amendment to the description.