T 0556/96 du 24.03.2000
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T055696.20000324
- Date de la décision
- 24 mars 2000
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0556/96
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 87307359.7
- Classe de la CIB
- A61F 13/00
- 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
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Wound dressing, its preparation and use
- Nom du demandeur
- Smith & Nephew plc
- Nom de l'opposant
- Johnson & Johnson
- Chambre
- 3.2.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 104 1973European Patent Convention Art 116 1973European Patent Convention Art 52 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Mots-clés
- Clarity (yes)
Inventive step (no)
Apportionment of costs (yes) - Exergue
- 1. The equitable obligation of a party summoned to oral proceedings to inform the EPO that it will not attend (T 930/92) implies that the party reaches a decision and notifies it in good time, i.e. sufficiently in advance of the date of the oral proceedings to allow the Board to reconsider the need for oral proceedings, if necessary after having contacted the other parties summoned, and to give notice to them that the oral proceedings have been cancelled as a consequence.
2. Where a party informs the EPO and/or the other parties of its intention not to attend the oral proceedings so late that cancellation of the oral proceedings is no longer a feasible option, then, for the purposes of apportionment of costs, the party responsible is to be treated as if it had been absent without prior notice. - Affaires citées
- T 0930/92
- Affaires citantes
- T 0258/13
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appeal is dismissed.
2. The costs in the appeal procedure shall be apportioned so that the appellant shall pay the respondent the full costs which he incurred as a result of his representative's preparations for and attendance at the oral proceedings.