Decisions in 2020

All board of appeal decisions released for publication in 2020 are shown in the list below by month.

Available months in 2020

March 2020
February 2020
January 2020

March 2020

T 1031/14 (Electronic vouchers/I-MOVO) of 3.12.2019
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 30/00	Application no. 06808671.9
Keywords Inventive step - cash voucher string comprising a non-cash value related number, issuer id and a pos id (no Inventive step - cognitive data)				Application title ELECTRONIC VOUCHERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T103114.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 317 KB)
T 1803/14 () of 28.1.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/268	Application no. 08794515.0
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Application title MULTI-PREVIEW CAPABILITY FOR VIDEO PRODUCTION DEVICE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T180314.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 391 KB)
T 1863/14 (Electronic vouchers/I-MOVO) of 3.12.2019
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 30/00	Application no. 10011926.2
Keywords Inventive step - voucher redemption request comprising an alphanumeric string having a cash value, issuer id and a redemption message (no Inventive step - cognitive data)				Application title Electronic vouchers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T186314.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 320 KB)
T 1136/15 () of 23.3.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 23.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H01B 3/52 C08K 3/36 C08K 3/38	Application no. 08705506.7
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title Insulating Tape having a Multi-layered Platelet Structure
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T113615.20200323				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 0194/16 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/49 A61F 13/56	Application no. 04771892.9
Keywords Amendments - main request Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no) Late-filed requests 1, 2 and 3 Late-filed request - diverging versions of claims				Application title DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T019416.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 2 MB)
T 0482/16 () of 23.1.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C10G 45/08 B01J 23/85 B01J 35/10	Application no. 07729938.6
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Clarity (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Right to be heard - substantial procedural violation (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (yes)				Application title CATALYTIC HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF AN OXYGENATE FEEDSTOCK
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T048216.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 407 KB)
T 1443/16 (Azelastine-mometasone/CIPLA) of 17.1.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/55 A61K 31/56 A61K 31/57 A61K 31/58 A61K 9/00 A61P 37/08 A61P 27/14 A61P 11/06	Application no. 09075101.7
Keywords Inventive step - main request, auxiliary requests III, V, VI (no) Admission - auxiliary requests I, II, IV (no)				Application title Combination of azelastine and mometasone
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T144316.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 437 KB)
T 1936/16 () of 14.2.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 14.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B62D 21/15 B62D 29/00	Application no. 09814121.1
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Zulassung neuer Angriffslinie in mündl. Verhandlung - (nein) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - (nein)				Application title VERSTÄRKTE STRUKTUR EINES FAHRZEUGS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T193616.20200214				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 595 KB)
T 1993/16 () of 6.2.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 6.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 3/02 F01N 3/10 F01N 3/20 F01N 3/24 B01D 53/94 B01J 29/74	Application no. 05790571.3
Keywords Inventive step - main request (no) Amendments - added subject-matter Amendments - auxiliary request 19 (yes)				Application title METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING EXHAUST EMISSION FROM INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T199316.20200206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 413 KB)
T 2538/16 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B62K 3/00 B62J 1/00 B62K 9/02	Application no. 11009298.8
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung (ja) Unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title Kleinkind-Roller
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T253816.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 333 KB)
T 0452/17 (Catalytic secondary reforming/Casale) of 23.1.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B01F 5/00 B01F 5/04 B01J 8/02 C01B 3/38 B01J 8/04	Application no. 04790745.6
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Novelty - auxiliary request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request (no) Inventive step - neighbouring field Inventive step - obvious combination of known features Statement of grounds of appeal - party's complete case Late-filed request - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title CATALYTIC SECONDARY REFORMING PROCESS AND REACTOR FOR SAID PROCESS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T045217.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 379 KB)
T 3216/19 () of 24.3.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 24.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/48 H01L 25/065	Application no. 07784074.2
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title PACKAGED SYSTEM OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS HAVING A SEMICONDUCTOR INTERPOSER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T321619.20200324				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 238 KB)
T 3262/19 () of 24.3.2020
Online on 27.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 24.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/528 H01L 23/485 H01L 21/60	Application no. 06814056.5
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title METHOD FOR FABRICATING LOW RESISTANCE, LOW INDUCTANCE INTERCONNECTIONS IN HIGH CURRENT SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T326219.20200324				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 238 KB)
T 0141/15 () of 3.3.2020
Online on 26.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 3.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 1/16	Application no. 08016170.6
Keywords Exception to patentability - therapeutic and surgical treatment (yes)				Application title Method to determine the Kt/V parameter in kidney substitution treatments based on a non-linear fitting procedure
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T014115.20200303				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 348 KB)
T 1548/15 (Crystalline taxol/BOSTON) of 10.3.2020
Online on 26.03.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 10.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/335 A61L 31/16 A61P 7/00 A61F 2/06 A61K 31/337 A61K 31/4035 A61K 31/407 A61L 31/14 A61K 31/04 A61K 31/131 A61K 31/135 A61K 31/165 A61K 31/17 A61K 31/365 A61K 31/40 A61K 31/4025 A61K 31/519 A61K 31/551 A61K 31/704 A61K 47/48	Application no. 09004768.9
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - continuation of appeal proceedings (no)				Application title Implantable device comprising taxol in crystalline form for the inhibition or prevention of restenosis
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T154815.20200310				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 241 KB)
T 0308/17 (Methods for refolding of recombinant antibodies/AMGEN) of 11.9.2019
Online on 26.03.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 11.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 16/00 C07K 1/113 C07K 16/28	Application no. 05811874.6
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Novelty - auxiliary requests I to IX, XI and XII (no) Admissibility of requests - auxiliary requests X, XIa, XIIa and XIII to XIX (no) Right to be heard - opportunity to comment (yes)				Application title Methods for refolding of recombinant antibodies
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T030817.20190911				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 507 KB)
D 0010/19 () of 5.2.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board DBA	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords -				Application title -
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:D001019.20200205				Distribution	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 204 KB)
D 0012/19 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board DBA	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords -				Application title -
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:D001219.20200218				Distribution	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 193 KB)
G 0001/18 (Einlegung der Beschwerde) of 18.7.2019
Online on 25.03.2020	Board EBA	Decision date 18.7.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords Als eingelegt geltende Beschwerde Zulässige Beschwerde Beschwerdegebühr Rückzahlung				Application title -
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:G000118.20190718				Distribution A	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 352 KB)
G 0001/18 (Filing an appeal) of 18.7.2019
Online on 25.03.2020	Board EBA	Decision date 18.7.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords Appeal deemed filed Appeal admissible Appeal fee reimbursement				Application title -
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:G000118.20190718				Distribution A	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 314 KB)
T 0140/15 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A61B 5/00 A61B 5/026	Application no. 08749811.9
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein); Hilfsantrag 1 (ja) Zulassung ins Verfahren von Hilfsantrag 1 (ja) Zulassung ins Verfahren von verspätetem Einwand (nein)				Application title VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR TRANSKUTANEN BESTIMMUNG VON BLUTGASEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T014015.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 465 KB)
T 0476/15 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F16K 27/02 F16K 37/00 F16K 1/22 B64D 37/32	Application no. 06253009.2
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Application title Shrouded valve apparatus and related methods
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T047615.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 962 KB)
T 1285/15 () of 18.11.2019
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B41M 3/14	Application no. 03772406.9
Keywords Admission of late filed documents (yes) Admission of a late filed attack (no) Remittal (no) Clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Added matter (yes: main request A; no: auxiliary request 0A) Novelty (yes: auxiliary request 0A) Inventive step (yes: auxiliary request 0A)				Application title Security Device and its Production Method
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T128515.20191118				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 1 MB)
T 1389/15 () of 17.2.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 17.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC H01R 13/66 H02H 7/22 H02H 11/00 G01R 27/20	Application no. 10803074.3
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 5 (nein) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung Änderungen - Hilfsantrag 5 (ja)				Application title Selbstüberwachende Anschlussleitung und Betriebsmittel
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T138915.20200217				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 324 KB)
T 0297/16 (SIP conferencing system/HUAWEI) of 23.1.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 29/08 H04M 3/56 H04L 12/18 H04L 29/12 H04L 29/06	Application no. 07721649.7
Keywords Added subject-matter (yes) - all requests				Application title A method, device and system for implementing the session service
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T029716.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 289 KB)
T 0330/16 () of 10.3.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC D06F 39/04 D06F 37/42 D06F 35/00	Application no. 06011421.2
Keywords Late-filed document - admitted (no)				Application title Method for operating a domestic appliance, especially a home dryer or a washing machine, and domestic appliance
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T033016.20200310				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 291 KB)
T 2453/16 (Synchronizing user revisions to a shared object/MICROSOFT LLC) of 31.1.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 31.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30 G06Q 10/00	Application no. 05112294.3
Keywords Claims - clarity (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Remittal to the department of first instance				Application title Method and system for synchronizing multiple user revisions to a shared object
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T245316.20200131				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 351 KB)
T 0002/17 () of 8.1.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B41F 13/00 B41F 33/00 B41K 3/12	Application no. 07789741.1
Keywords Late-filed evidence - resubmitted with the statement of grounds of appeal (admitted) Inventive step - main request, auxiliary request I (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request II (yes)				Application title Numbering device for typographic numbering
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T000217.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 656 KB)
T 0305/17 (Methods of vaccine administration/ZOETIS SERVICES) of 12.3.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 12.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 39/02 A61K 39/175 A61K 39/10 A61K 39/23 A61K 39/12 A61K 39/295 A61K 39/155	Application no. 07825750.8
Keywords Basis of decision - agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor Basis of decision - patent revoked				Application title Methods of vaccine administration
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T030517.20200312				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 260 KB)
T 0787/17 () of 11.10.2019
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 11.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B42D 15/00 G02B 5/18 G02B 27/22 G02B 3/00	Application no. 10728614.8
Keywords Ausführbarkeit (ja) Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein: Hauptantrag; ja: Hilfsantrag 1)				Application title Mehrschichtkörper
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T078717.20191011				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 1 MB)
T 0800/17 () of 20.3.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 20.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 5/017	Application no. 12715731.1
Keywords Amendments of application Amendments - allowable (yes) Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (no)				Application title HUMAN ASSISTED MILKING ROBOT AND METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T080017.20200320				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 291 KB)
T 0905/17 () of 16.9.2019
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 16.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F16L 11/14 F16L 11/16 F16L 11/04 F16L 11/08	Application no. 01974060.4
Keywords Inventive step (yes)				Application title Armoured, flexible pipe
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T090517.20190916				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 864 KB)
T 1014/17 () of 20.3.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 20.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C08L 83/06	Application no. 12713120.9
Keywords Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (nein: D27-D31) Einspruchsgründe - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Einspruchsgründe - Erweiterung von Patentansprüchen (nein) Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Patentansprüche - Klarheit im Einspruchsbeschwerdeverfahren Spät vorgebrachte Einwände - zugelassen (nein)				Application title WÄSSRIGE DISPERSIONEN VON ORGANOSILICIUMVERBINDUNGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T101417.20200320				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 468 KB)
T 1000/19 () of 20.3.2020
Online on 25.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 20.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 20/06 C08L 33/04 C08K 3/34 D21H 17/19 C08F 220/06 C08F 222/02 C08F 222/04 C08F 2/38	Application no. 11848633.1
Keywords Correction of error - form for payment of opposition fee (yes)				Application title STABLE POLYACRYLIC ACIDS, THEIR MANUFACTURE AND THEIR USE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T100019.20200320				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 327 KB)
T 0038/15 () of 16.10.2019
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 16.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F16P 3/10	Application no. 08786151.4
Keywords Mit der Beschwerdebegründung eingereichte Beweismittel (zugelassen) Beweismittel - Begutachtung durch Sachverständigen (nicht erforderlich) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung (ja)				Application title Verfahren zum Schutz von Personen bei ihrer Arbeit an einer Servopresse sowie Servopresse mit Personenschutzeinrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T003815.20191016				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 539 KB)
T 0247/15 () of 5.3.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/60	Application no. 02703183.0
Keywords Mixture of technical and non-technical features Inventive step - all requests (no)				Application title METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING ONLINE TARGETED CONTENT DELIVERY
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T024715.20200305				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 346 KB)
T 1525/15 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B31F 1/07	Application no. 00940748.7
Keywords Clarity (yes) Added matter (no) Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Application title Embossing method for the production of multi-ply web material, and product made in this way
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T152515.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 677 KB)
T 0252/16 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language FR	IPC E21B 17/01 F16L 11/08	Application no. 04786274.3
Keywords Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - exposé de l'invention permettant sa mise en oeuvre (oui) Nouveauté - (oui) Activité inventive - (oui)				Application title Méthode d'évacuation des gaz de perméation d'une conduite tubulaire flexible et conduite adaptée à sa mise en ½uvre
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T025216.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 391 KB)
T 1059/16 (Sub-carriers numbers signalling/AVAGO) of 16.1.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 5/00	Application no. 12002702.4
Keywords Late-filed request - change of subject-matter Late-filed request - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings				Application title Downclocking with adaptive sub-carriers for single user, multiple user, multiple access and/or MIMO wireless communication
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T105916.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 257 KB)
T 1627/16 (Volatile memory in hearing aids/OTICON) of 21.2.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 21.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04R 25/00	Application no. 09172644.8
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Admission of late-filed auxiliary requests - (no): not convergent and/or not clearly allowable Admission of auxiliary request filed during oral proceedings - (no): returning to previous claims and not clearly allowable				Application title A listening system comprising a charging station with a data memory
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T162716.20200221				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 395 KB)
T 1721/16 () of 19.3.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 19.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/3065 H01L 21/00	Application no. 06117783.8
Keywords Clarity - after amendment (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (no) Novelty and inventive step Novelty - (yes)				Application title Etching method and etching apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T172116.20200319				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 354 KB)
T 0023/17 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C08L 77/02 C08L 77/06 B29C 67/00	Application no. 11714254.7
Keywords Verspätetes Vorbringen - Beweismittel zugelassen (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - alle Anträge				Application title POLYMERPULVER AUF DER BASIS VON POLYAMIDEN, VERWENDUNG IN EINEM FORMGEBENDEN VERFAHREN UND FORMKÖRPER, HERGESTELLT AUS DIESEM POLYMERPULVER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T002317.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 402 KB)
T 0280/17 (PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CROSS-LINKED GELATIN MICROBEADLETS/BASF … of 5.3.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 5.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/16	Application no. 04721495.2
Keywords Appeal admissible - Yes Amended main request admissible - No				Application title PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CROSS-LINKED GELATIN MICROBEADLETS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T028017.20200305				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 291 KB)
T 0397/17 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 24.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B60J 7/02 B60J 7/043	Application no. 11176299.3
Keywords Clarity (yes) Added subject-matter (no) Extension of protection (no) Inventive step (yes)				Application title Roof system for a vehicle
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T039717.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306 KB)
T 0325/15 (Diagnosis of stroke/BIO-RAD) of 12.12.2019
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/68 G01N 33/74 C07K 14/58	Application no. 09781380.2
Keywords Oral proceedings - held in absence of appellant Novelty - (main request: no) Inventive step - (auxiliary request: no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title METHOD FOR THE IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS OF STROKE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T032515.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306 KB)
T 2202/15 () of 7.2.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 7.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B05B 13/04 B41J 3/407	Application no. 05788705.1
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING IMAGES TO A SURFACE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T220215.20200207				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 591 KB)
T 0175/16 (Circuit-switched fallback in LTE/ERICSSON) of 18.2.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04W 36/14	Application no. 11192773.7
Keywords Inventive step - main request and auxiliary request III (no) Admission into appeal proceedings - auxiliary requests I, II and IV (no): fresh case				Application title Circuit switched fallback in evolved packet system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T017516.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 374 KB)
T 0320/16 () of 18.3.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 18.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B26B 21/38 B26B 21/52	Application no. 05797884.3
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Late-filed auxiliary request - request could have been filed in first instance proceedings (yes) Decision in written proceedings after cancellation of oral proceedings				Application title VIBRATING WET SHAVER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T032016.20200318				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 332 KB)
T 0828/16 (Verarbeitung von Terahertzwellen/TELEKOM) of 16.3.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 16.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC H04B 10/12	Application no. 09732829.8
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Haupt- und Hilfsantrag (nein)				Application title Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Verarbeitung von Terahertzwellen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T082816.20200316				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 299 KB)
T 1169/16 () of 8.1.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F03D 11/00 F03D 11/04 E04H 12/08 E04H 12/34 F03D 1/00 B66B 9/00	Application no. 09012887.7
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Inventive step - (yes) Novelty - (yes)				Application title A wind turbine tower elevator and a method for assembling a wind turbine tower
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T116916.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 380 KB)
T 1258/16 (Abiraterone prednisone combination for treatment of prostate cancer/ … of 6.2.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 6.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/573 A61P 35/00 A61K 31/58 A61K 45/06	Application no. 07837326.3
Keywords Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor				Application title Compositions for treating cancer
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T125816.20200206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 270 KB)
T 1450/16 (Acoustic port of a hearing device/SHURE) of 17.1.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04R 1/10	Application no. 11193846.0
Keywords Inventive step - main and second auxiliary request (no): selection of closest prior art to be made by the deciding body (T 855/15 followed) Admission of late-filed first auxiliary request - (no): not clearly allowable				Application title Earphone for sound reproduction
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T145016.20200117				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 421 KB)
T 2020/16 () of 11.3.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 11.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F02M 25/08 B60K 15/035 F02D 41/00 B60W 20/00 B60K 6/20	Application no. 08012618.8
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Inventive step - combination invention (no) Late-filed request - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title Evaporative emission control in battery powered vehicle with gasoline engine powered generator
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T202016.20200311				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 370 KB)
T 0546/17 () of 5.3.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 5.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A61M 1/00	Application no. 10734669.4
Keywords Erlöschen des Patents in allen benannten Vertragsstaaten - Beendigung des Beschwerdeverfahrens				Application title VORRICHTUNG ZUR UNTERDRUCKTHERAPIE VON WUNDEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T054617.20200305				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 242 KB)
T 0662/17 () of 9.1.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E03B 7/08	Application no. 13750562.4
Keywords Patentansprüche - Klarheit Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag I und II (nein) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung Änderungen - -Hilfsantrag IIIa (nein) Beschwerdeentscheidung - Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja)				Application title ANORDNUNG ZUR DURCHFÜHRUNG EINER HYGIENESPÜLUNG IN EINER WASSERINSTALLATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T066217.20200109				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 828 KB)
T 2704/18 () of 4.3.2020
Online on 23.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B60T 13/58 B60T 13/74	Application no. 14787200.6
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (nein)				Application title ELEKTROMECHANISCH UND HYDRAULISCH BETÄTIGBARE KRAFTFAHRZEUGBREMSE MIT WAHLWEISER SELBSTHEMMUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T270418.20200304				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 429 KB)
T 0209/15 () of 31.1.2020
Online on 20.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 31.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 5/34	Application no. 06121820.2
Keywords Late filed ground for opposition - admitted (no) Late filed document - admitted (no) Discretionary decision - revised (no) Late filed line of argument of lack of inventive step - admitted (no) Late filed line of argument of lack of novelty - admitted (no) Novelty - (yes)				Application title A needle mount and use of the needle mount for mounting a needle assembly
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T020915.20200131				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 833 KB)
T 1546/15 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 20.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H01F 27/14 E21B 33/038	Application no. 08164976.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Pressure compensator
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T154615.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 1485/17 () of 17.2.2020
Online on 20.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 17.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 37/00	Application no. 13773343.2
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)				Application title SIGNAL CAPTURE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DETECTION OF LOW FREQUENCY ELECTRIC SIGNALS IN LIQUIDS AND BIOLOGICAL MATTER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T148517.20200217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 340 KB)
T 1518/17 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 20.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 23/12 C08F 297/08	Application no. 11734139.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (no) (all requests) Multiple documents as closest state of the art- need to show inventive step with respect to each Late submitted material - document admitted (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted Late-filed auxiliary requests - (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - response to findings of decision (auxiliary request I)				Application title PROPYLENE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T151817.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 403 KB)
T 1964/17 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 20.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 297/08 C08L 23/14	Application no. 10715556.6
Keywords Late-filed objection - admitted (no) Late-filed facts or evidence Late-filed facts - held inadmissible (no) Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title PROPYLENE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T196417.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 460 KB)
J 0006/19 () of 15.1.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C02F 1/46 C02F 1/76 C02F 1/50	Application no. 15848194.5
Keywords Withdrawal of an application - Correction of error after publication (No) - Telephone call - Protection of legitimate expectations (No)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OXIDATION OF AMMONIA
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:J000619.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 368 KB)
T 0136/16 () of 3.3.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 3.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B66B 1/14 B66B 1/18	Application no. 04106222.5
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - mangelnde Patentierbarkeit (ja) Neuheit - (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - Verletzung des rechtlichen Gehörs (ja)				Application title Verfahren zur Beförderung von Personen in einem Gebäude
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T013616.20200303				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 476 KB)
T 0939/16 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B29B 9/16 B29B 9/06 C08G 63/00 C08G 63/90	Application no. 06791670.0
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (Hauptantrag und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 7: nein) Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - eingereicht in der mündlichen Verhandlung Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (D8: nein) Spät eingereichter Antrag - erneut eingereicht mit der Beschwerdebegründung Spät eingereichter Antrag - zugelassen (Hilfsanträge 1-3: ja) Spät eingereichter Hilfsantrag - eingereicht in der mündlichen Verhandlung - zugelassen (Hilfsantrag 8: nein)				Application title VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR VERRINGERUNG DES ACETALDEHYDGEHALTES VON POLYESTERGRANULAT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T093916.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 619 KB)
T 1010/16 (Sounding reference signal triggering/ERICSSON) of 5.12.2019
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 5.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 5/00 H04L 27/26	Application no. 10774301.5
Keywords Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR DYNAMICALLY TRIGGERING THE TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T101016.20191205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 278 KB)
T 1880/16 (Ammonia synthesis gas/thyssenkrupp) of 8.1.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C01B 3/02 C01B 3/38 C01B 3/48 C01C 1/04	Application no. 08853299.9
Keywords Inventive step - (yes) Inventive step - non-obvious alternative				Application title PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AMMONIA SYNTHESIS GAS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T188016.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 339 KB)
T 0223/18 (Product insert update/BIO-RAD) of 18.2.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 19/00 G06Q 10/00	Application no. 11778166.6
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Claims - clarity Claims - auxiliary requests (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary requests (no)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED PRODUCT INSERTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T022318.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 280 KB)
T 0113/19 (Composition a base d'oxyde de zirconium/Rhodia) of 17.1.2020
Online on 19.03.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language FR	IPC C01G 25/00 B01D 53/94 B01J 23/10 B01J 21/00	Application no. 03761645.5
Keywords Modifications - admises (oui) Modifications - nouvelle plage Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - (oui) Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - plage sans limite supérieure Activité inventive - (oui)				Application title COMPOSITION A BASE D OXYDE DE ZIRCONIUM ET D OXYDES DE CERIUM, DE LANTHANE ET D UNE AUTRE TERRE RARE, SON PROCEDE D E PREPARATION ET SON UTILISATION COMME CATALYSEUR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T011319.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 369 KB)
T 0418/15 () of 5.2.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B07C 3/08	Application no. 07150496.3
Keywords Inventive step - seventh auxiliary request (yes) New ground for opposition in appeal proceedings - no consent of the patent proprietor				Application title Mail sorting and sequencing system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T041815.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 336 KB)
T 1533/15 (COATING OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE CANS) of 10.1.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 151/08 B65D 17/00	Application no. 05825629.8
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - (yes) Novelty - main request (no) Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed items of evidence - admitted (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title COATING COMPOSITIONS FOR CANS AND METHODS OF COATING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T153315.20200110				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 656 KB)
T 1566/15 (Random access in a telecommunications system/ERICSSON) of 20.2.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 20.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04W 74/08	Application no. 08874734.0
Keywords Novelty - patent as granted (no) Inventive step - auxiliary requests 2A, 5A and 6 (no) Admissibility of late-filed auxiliary request 7 (no): divergent and not clearly allowable				Application title Methods and apparatuses for performing random access in a telecommunications system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T156615.20200220				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 385 KB)
T 2281/16 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60H 1/00	Application no. 11725362.5
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERBESSERTE KLIMAANLAGENSTEUERUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T228116.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 269 KB)
T 0272/17 () of 18.12.2019
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B63G 7/02	Application no. 12195733.6
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein) Neuheit - Hilfsantrag I (ja) Zulassung des Hilfsantrags I - mit Beschwerdeerwiderung als Hilfsantrag IV eingereicht (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag I (ja)				Application title Kampfmittelräumgerät zum Räumen von Kampfmitteln, wie Seeminen, unter Wasser, Kampfmittelräumkombination mit unbemanntem Unterwasserfahrzeug und derartigem Kampfmittelräumgerät sowie Verfahren hierzu
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T027217.20191218				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 546 KB)
T 1336/17 () of 13.1.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 13.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 163/00	Application no. 04012885.2
Keywords Main request and first to third auxiliary requests - Inventive step (no) Fourth auxiliary request - Prohibition of reformatio in peius				Application title Epoxy adhesive composition
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T133617.20200113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 414 KB)
T 2069/17 () of 3.3.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 21/05 G01N 21/64 G02B 21/00	Application no. 09743421.1
Keywords Main request - inventive step (no) Late-filed first auxiliary request - admitted (no) Late-filed second auxiliary request - justification for late filing (yes) - admitted (yes) - inventive step (no)				Application title COMPENSATOR FOR MULTIPLE SURFACE IMAGING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T206917.20200303				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 329 KB)
T 2140/17 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F16B 13/08	Application no. 06721687.9
Keywords Novelty - (no)				Application title ANCHOR ASSEMBLY FOR FASTENER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T214017.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 277 KB)
T 2383/17 () of 5.3.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 5.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E01C 19/48 F01P 11/10 F01P 5/06	Application no. 12007422.4
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nächstliegender Stand der Technik muss gattungsgemäß sein				Application title Baumaschine mit Maschinenkomponenten
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T238317.20200305				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 371 KB)
T 2659/17 () of 4.3.2020
Online on 18.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B23D 47/04 B25B 5/06	Application no. 09000326.0
Keywords Zulässigkeit des Einspruchs - Substantiierung des Einspruchs (ja) Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - Beschwerde hinreichend begründet (ja) Beweismittel - offenkundige Vorbenutzung Beweismittel - Zeugenvernehmung Beweismittel - schriftliche Erklärung an Eides statt Beweismittel - Maßstab bei der Beweiswürdigung Wesentlicher Verfahrensmangel - Verletzung des rechtlichen Gehörs (ja) Neuheit - offenkundige Vorbenutzung (nein) Neuheit - nicht ausreichend bewiesen Neuheit - offenkundige Vorbenutzung Neuheit - stillschweigende Geheimhaltungsverpflichtung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)				Application title Plattenaufteilanlage
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T265917.20200304				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 422 KB)
T 0278/15 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC H02M 1/12 H02M 1/44	Application no. 03737935.1
Keywords Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - Beschwerde hinreichend begründet (ja) Spät eingereichte Anträge - Antrag hätte bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorgebracht werden können (nein) Beschwerdeentscheidung - Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja)				Application title Stromkompensierte Drossel und Schaltungsanordnung mit der stromkompensierten Drossel
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T027815.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 390 KB)
T 0394/15 () of 26.2.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 26.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 5/20 A61M 5/32	Application no. 08848709.5
Keywords Summons to oral proceedings - non-attendance of parties Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal - admitted (yes) Apportionment of costs - (no) Novelty - main request (no) Novelty - first auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - first auxiliary request (yes) Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)				Application title AUTO INJECTOR WITH AUTOMATIC NEEDLE RETRACTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T039415.20200226				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 1 MB)
T 1088/15 () of 19.12.2019
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 19.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C09D 5/00 C08F 8/00 C23C 22/00	Application no. 06724403.8
Keywords Änderungen - zulässig (nein) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR STROMFREIEN APPLIKATION VON LACKSCHICHTBILDENDEM KORROSIONSSCHUTZMITTEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T108815.20191219				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 381 KB)
T 1727/15 (PBX mobility system with multiple call legs/BLACKBERRY) of 11.3.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 11.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04M 3/58	Application no. 09153698.7
Keywords Inventive step - main request (no) Admissibility - auxiliary requests (no): should have been filed before the first instance or not clearly allowable				Application title PBX mobility system with multiple call legs
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T172715.20200311				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 333 KB)
T 2111/15 () of 5.2.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G09G 3/36	Application no. 11000919.8
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)				Application title Display apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T211115.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 342 KB)
T 0641/17 () of 6.3.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 6.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B65D 77/02 B65D 77/30 B65D 85/10	Application no. 10732286.9
Keywords Spät eingereichter Antrag - Antrag hätte bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorgebracht werden können (ja)				Application title ZIGARETTENPACKUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUM HERSTELLEN VON ZIGARETTENPACKUNGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T064117.20200306				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 275 KB)
T 0781/17 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C09K 11/06 C07D 519/00 H01L 51/50	Application no. 10835884.7
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)				Application title ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T078117.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 351 KB)
T 2014/19 () of 12.3.2020
Online on 17.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 12.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 43/02 B65D 43/16	Application no. 14306112.5
Keywords Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor Basis of decision - patent revoked				Application title Container
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T201419.20200312				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 245 KB)
T 2305/14 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01V 1/38	Application no. 07113031.4
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the parent application as filed (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - invention to be performed over whole range claimed Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)				Application title Control system for positioning of marine seismic streamers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T230514.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 370 KB)
T 0043/15 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01V 1/38	Application no. 07113039.7
Keywords Amendments - generalization of a specific feature Amendments - extension beyond the content of the parent application as filed (yes)				Application title Control system for positioning of marine seismic streamers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T004315.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 308 KB)
T 1191/15 () of 21.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 21.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 1/16	Application no. 10004110.2
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Amendments - broadening of claim (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes)				Application title Dialysis apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T119115.20200221				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 357 KB)
T 1471/16 (Hyaluronidase/HALOZYME) of 24.1.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 24.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 9/26	Application no. 13184202.3
Keywords Main request - admission (yes); Main request - fulfils all requirements of the EPC (yes);				Application title Large-scale production of soluble hyaluronidase
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T147116.20200124				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 434 KB)
T 1982/16 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01V 1/38 B63B 21/66	Application no. 07113028.0
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the parent application as filed (yes)				Application title Control system for the positioning of marine seismic streamers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T198216.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 340 KB)
T 0851/18 () of 10.1.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F16D 25/10 F16D 25/12 F16D 25/0638	Application no. 12759630.2
Keywords Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title STATOR FÜR EINE REIBUNGSKUPPLUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T085118.20200110				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 426 KB)
T 2554/18 () of 19.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 19.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A47B 88/02	Application no. 13005922.3
Keywords Neuheit - (ja)				Application title Vorrichtung zur lösbaren Kopplung einer Innenlade an einer Außenlade eines Möbels sowie Möbel
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T255418.20200219				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 388 KB)
T 3003/18 () of 12.2.2020
Online on 16.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 6/38	Application no. 14166143.9
Keywords Admission of amended request filed during oral proceedings (yes) Added subject-matter (no) Amendments - Clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Compliance of amendments to the description with Rule 80, under consideration of Article 101(3) EPC (yes) Novelty and inventive step (amended claims, yes)				Application title Fiber optic plug
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T300318.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 572 KB)
T 0466/15 () of 19.12.2019
Online on 13.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 19.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G08G 1/01	Application no. 04776021.0
Keywords Amendments extending beyond the content of the application documents as filed (yes) Admittance of late filed auxiliary request (no) - does not overcome all problems, introduces new problems				Application title System and Method for Evaluating Vehicle and Operator Performance
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T046615.20191219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 412 KB)
T 1379/15 () of 3.3.2020
Online on 13.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 3.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H02K 3/34 F04C 29/00 F04C 18/356 H02K 3/52	Application no. 08711458.3
Keywords Inventive step - (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes)				Application title Insulator for Motor, Stator, Motor and Compressor
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T137915.20200303				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 311 KB)
T 1942/15 (Automatische Bestimmung des Hörerwunsches/SIVANTOS) of 30.1.2020
Online on 13.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC H04R 25/00	Application no. 07117099.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja): glaubhafter technischer Effekt Zulassung ins Verfahren - spät eingereichter Stand der Technik (nein): keine angemessene Reaktion und nicht prima facie relevant				Application title Verfahren zum zeitgesteuerten Einstellen einer Hörvorrichtung und entsprechende Hörvorrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T194215.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 417 KB)
T 1735/16 () of 7.2.2020
Online on 13.03.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 7.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G09G 3/20 G09G 5/10 G09G 3/34	Application no. 09730656.7
Keywords Added subject matter - no Clarity - after amendment (yes) Novelty and inventive step Novelty - after amendment (yes)				Application title METHODS FOR DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T173516.20200207				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 2240/17 (Patching system/COMMSCOPE) of 9.3.2020
Online on 13.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 9.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04Q 1/14	Application no. 05853191.4
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - termination of appeal proceedings				Application title Telecommunications patching system that utilizes RFID tags to detect and identify patch cord interconnections
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T224017.20200309				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 243 KB)
T 2289/13 () of 10.1.2020
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01S 17/46 G01S 7/486	Application no. 01127862.9
Keywords Inventive step - ex post facto analysis				Application title Method and device for detection of an object, with background elimination
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T228913.20200110				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 358 KB)
T 1062/15 (OFDM pilot subcarriers transmission/TOSHIBA) of 17.7.2019
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 17.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 27/26 H04L 25/02 H04B 7/10 H04L 5/02	Application no. 05251501.2
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main request (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title OFDM Signal transmission method and apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T106215.20190717				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 442 KB)
T 1430/15 () of 24.2.2020
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 24.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H02N 11/00	Application no. 10700896.3
Keywords Main request - insufficient disclosure Auxiliary request - added subject-matter				Application title Energy Transducer and Method
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T143015.20200224				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 351 KB)
T 1523/16 () of 16.12.2019
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 16.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61C 13/00 A61C 1/00	Application no. 99125490.5
Keywords Hauptantrag - Neuheit - (nein) Spät eingereichter Antrag - Zulassung in das Verfahren (ja) Hilfsantrag c' - Neuheit - (ja) Hilfsantrag c' - Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Verfahren zur Herstellung von Zahnersatz und dentalen Hilfsteilen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T152316.20191216				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 436 KB)
T 1915/16 () of 18.12.2019
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 18.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E05F 15/00 E05F 15/20 E05F 15/14	Application no. 07113038.9
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 2 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Änderungen - Hilfsantrag 1 Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (ja) Patentansprüche - Klarheit Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag (ja)				Application title Verfahren zum Betrieb einer automatischen Schiebetüranlage
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T191516.20191218				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 389 KB)
T 2412/16 () of 6.3.2020
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 6.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G01F 23/296	Application no. 05858608.2
Keywords Klarheit und Stützung der Ansprüche durch die Beschreibung (nein)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR AUSWERTUNG UND KORREKTUR VON MESSSIGNALEN EINES NACH DEM LAUFZEITVERFAHREN ARBEITENDEN FÜLLSTANDSMESSGERÄTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T241216.20200306				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 311 KB)
T 2445/16 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 12.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC E21B 17/042 F16L 15/00	Application no. 09176859.8
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title Threaded joint sealed to [ultra high] internal and external pressures
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T244516.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 233 KB)
T 1549/16 () of 2.3.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 2.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E03C 1/046	Application no. 11007130.5
Keywords Ausnahmen von der Patentierbarkeit - Verfahren zur therapeutischen Behandlung Ausnahmen von der Patentierbarkeit - (nein) Patentansprüche - Klarheit nach Änderung (ja) Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Application title Verfahren zur Applikation eines Wirkstoffs in Duschwasser
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T154916.20200302				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 399 KB)
T 1988/16 (Matériau en feuille avec fenêtre / OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE) of 12.12.2019
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC D21H 27/30 D21H 21/42 D21H 21/44 D21H 27/32 D21F 11/08 D21H 21/40	Application no. 08827310.7
Keywords Admissibilité d'un élément de preuve tardif (no) - appartenance à l'etat de la technique pas supporté Activité inventive (oui) Activité inventive - pas d'objection soulevée par la requérante				Application title PROCÉDÉ DE FABRICATION D'UN MATÉRIAU EN FEUILLE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T198816.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 301 KB)
T 2639/16 () of 19.2.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 19.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A47J 31/00 A47J 31/40	Application no. 12151548.0
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Claims - lack of clarity no ground for opposition Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Chocolate beverage
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T263916.20200219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 321 KB)
T 0266/17 () of 17.2.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 17.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A01K 31/00 A01K 45/00	Application no. 09787794.8
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Grounds for opposition - lack of clarity no ground for opposition Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title TRANSPORTING UNIT FOR LIVE POULTRY ON BOARD OF A TRUCK
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T026617.20200217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 314 KB)
T 0297/17 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C23C 26/00	Application no. 01944809.1
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title COATING SYSTEM FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STAINLESS STEEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T029717.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 369 KB)
T 1297/17 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B61K 9/12 G01M 17/10 G01H 1/00 B61L 23/00	Application no. 01985425.6
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung der Erfindung Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM ÜBERWACHEN DES FAHRVERHALTENS VON SCHIENENFAHRZEUGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T129717.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 287 KB)
T 2208/17 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E04D 12/00 B32B 27/40 B32B 27/12 B32B 5/02 B32B 5/08 B32B 3/06 B32B 3/08	Application no. 11188793.1
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Beschwerdeentscheidung - Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja)				Application title Wasserdichte Unterdeckbahn für ein geneigtes Dach
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T220817.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 317 KB)
T 2475/17 () of 9.3.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 9.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B42D 15/00	Application no. 03740215.3
Keywords Vorliegen wesentlicher Verfahrensfehler (ja) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr (ja)				Application title Verfahren zum Erzeugen eines Gitterbildes, Gitterbild und Sicherheitsdokument
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T247517.20200309				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 338 KB)
T 0667/18 (Common vital sign/PHILIPS) of 20.2.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 20.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 19/00	Application no. 05799470.9
Keywords Late-filed requests Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title MESSAGE INTEGRITY FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION OF WIRELESS MEDICAL DEVICES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T066718.20200220				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 280 KB)
T 1534/18 () of 3.3.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B81C 1/00	Application no. 09761542.1
Keywords Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - (ja)				Application title HERSTELLUNGSVERFAHREN FÜR EIN MIKROMECHANISCHES BAUELEMENT BESTEHEND AUS EINEM TRÄGER UND EINEM HALBLEITERCHIP
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T153418.20200303				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 301 KB)
T 2069/18 (Berührungsempfindlicher Bildschirm, der zwei gleichzeitige Berü … of 21.1.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G06F 3/038	Application no. 05025836.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - naheliegende Alternative Änderungen - Zwischenverallgemeinerung Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (ja) Rückzahlung von Jahresgebühren (nein) Vorlage an die Große Beschwerdekammer - (nein)				Application title Berührungsempfindlicher Bildschirm, der zwei gleichzeitige Berührungspunkte erkennt
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T206918.20200121				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 390 KB)
T 2864/18 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC E04H 6/18 E04H 6/24 E04H 6/30 E04H 6/36	Application no. 15732380.9
Keywords Correction of errors in decisions Correction of error - grant decision				Application title TRANSFERRING CARRIAGE OF VEHICLES FOR AUTOMATIC MECHANICAL PARKING SYSTEMS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T286418.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 288 KB)
T 0522/19 (Katalytisch beschichteter Partikelfilter/Umicore) of 3.3.2019
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 3.3.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B01D 53/94 B01D 46/24 F01N 3/035 B01J 37/02 B01J 23/40 B01J 23/42 B01J 23/44	Application no. 05774993.9
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Änderung				Application title KATALYTISCH BESCHICHTETES PARTIKELFILTER UND VERFAHREN ZU SEINER HERSTELLUNG SOWIE SEINE VERWENDUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T052219.20190303				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 312 KB)
T 2277/19 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 11.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 17/00 A61B 17/04 A61B 17/064 A61B 17/06 A61B 17/08 A61B 17/10	Application no. 12739909.5
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - appellant not adversely affected by decision to grant a patent				Application title SYSTEMS FOR SEALING A TISSUE WALL PUNCTURE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T227719.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 296 KB)
T 1313/14 () of 16.1.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 13/00 G02B 21/22	Application no. 06018707.7
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes) First auxiliary request - sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Second auxiliary request - extension of conferred scope of protection (yes)				Application title Medical stereo observation system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T131314.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 420 KB)
T 1745/14 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 253/10 C07C 253/34 C07C 255/07	Application no. 05701203.1
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON 3-PENTENNITRIL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T174514.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 358 KB)
T 0532/15 () of 7.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 7.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06T 7/00 G06K 9/20 H04N 5/272	Application no. 10186448.6
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main and auxiliary request (no)				Application title An automated test method including transparent black regions
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T053215.20200207				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 323 KB)
T 1932/15 (Low-fat food/AJINOMOTO) of 6.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 6.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/305 A23C 9/152 A23D 9/007 A23L 1/22 A23L 1/24 A23L 1/227 A23L 1/228	Application no. 08752255.3
Keywords Main request and auxiliary request 3 - clarity (no) Auxiliary requests 1 and 2 - added subject-matter (yes)				Application title LOW-FAT FOOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T193215.20200206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 337 KB)
T 0388/16 (Pet food composition/HILL'S) of 31.1.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 31.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A23K 1/00 A23K 1/16 A23K 1/18	Application no. 04758686.2
Keywords Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Claims - clarity (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title PET FOOD COMPOSITION AND METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T038816.20200131				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 364 KB)
T 0986/16 () of 20.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 20.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A01K 1/00	Application no. 07252552.0
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the opposition division (yes)				Application title Method and apparatus for cooling an animal
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T098616.20200220				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 333 KB)
T 1050/16 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15 A61F 5/44	Application no. 05722177.2
Keywords Remittal to the department of first instance as main request Remittal to the department of first instance - (no) Remittal to the department of first instance - special reasons for not remitting the case Amendments - auxiliary requests 1, 3 and 10 Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary requests 2 and 4 (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (yes)				Application title A PANT-TYPE ABSORBENT ARTICLE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T105016.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 431 KB)
T 1274/16 () of 27.11.2019
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B61G 11/16	Application no. 03703244.8
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure (no)				Application title TRAIN PROVIDED WITH ENERGY ABSORBING STRUCTURE BETWEEN VEHICLES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T127416.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 335 KB)
T 1384/16 () of 24.1.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 24.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/22 A23L 1/236 A23L 1/308 A23G 3/42 A23G 1/40	Application no. 08748937.3
Keywords Main request and auxiliary request 1 - Sufficiency of disclosure (no) Auxiliary request 8 - Extension of the scope of protection (yes) Auxiliary requests 2 to 7 and 9 to 17 - Admission into the appeal proceedings (no)				Application title REDUCING THE SENSORY COOLING EFFECT OF POLYOLS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T138416.20200124				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 386 KB)
T 1867/16 (Co-Processed Carbohydrate System / SPI PHARMA) of 18.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/20 A61K 9/14 A61K 9/16 A61K 9/50	Application no. 02787055.9
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Application title CO-PROCESSED CARBOHYDRATE SYSTEM AS A QUICK-DISSOLVE MATRIX FOR SOLID DOSAGE FORMS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T186716.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 328 KB)
T 1908/16 () of 14.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 14.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A22C 15/00	Application no. 09012518.8
Keywords Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Method and system for weighing products
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T190816.20200214				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 323 KB)
T 2255/16 (COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MACROMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES / MALVERN … of 21.2.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 21.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 8/02 A61K 8/14 A61K 8/55 A61K 8/97 A61Q 19/00 A61K 9/107 G01N 33/68 A61K 47/48	Application no. 07824940.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MACROMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES OF LIPID AND SURFACTANT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T225516.20200221				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 278 KB)
T 1677/17 () of 2.3.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 2.3.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E03F 5/04	Application no. 08020387.0
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Ablaufvorrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T167717.20200302				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 293 KB)
T 2406/17 () of 8.1.2020
Online on 10.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B66F 9/20 B66F 9/22 B66F 9/075	Application no. 13157621.7
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein) Neuheit - Hilfsanträge 1 bis 3 (nein)				Application title Hubvorrichtung eines Flurförderzeugs
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T240617.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 376 KB)
T 2172/15 (Sequencing/ILLUMINA) of 5.2.2020
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C12Q 1/68 C12N 15/11 C40B 40/06	Application no. 10770456.1
Keywords Main request - sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Remittal to the opposition division				Application title Sequencing methods
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T217215.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 351 KB)
T 0123/16 () of 4.3.2020
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 4.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 21/06 G02B 21/32 G02B 21/00	Application no. 07009066.7
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)				Application title Illuminating device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T012316.20200304				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 345 KB)
T 0184/16 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 19/06	Application no. 04771314.4
Keywords Inventive step Sufficiency of disclosure Objection under Rule 106 EPC				Application title NOVEL COMPOUNDS HAVING INHIBITORY ACTIVITY AGAINST SODIUM-DEPENDANT TRANSPORTER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T018416.20191212				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 529 KB)
T 1902/16 (Triggered release/Unilever) of 9.12.2019
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 9.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386 C11D 17/00	Application no. 09726019.4
Keywords Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Novelty - (no) Inventive step - (no)				Application title DETERGENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING AN ENZYME TRIGGERED RELEASE SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T190216.20191209				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 380 KB)
T 2690/16 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 110/06 C08F 2/06 C08F 4/6592	Application no. 08873769.7
Keywords Inventive step - (no)- main request, auxiliary request Admittance of documents to proceedings - yes Incorrect application of problem solution approach - elements of solution in definition of problem				Application title ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE PRODUCED FROM SUPERCRITICAL POLYMERIZATION PROCESS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T269016.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 429 KB)
T 2306/18 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15	Application no. 13713055.5
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main request (no) Late-filed auxiliary request - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MAKING ABSORBENT ARTICLES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T230618.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 534 KB)
T 3247/19 () of 4.3.2020
Online on 09.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 4.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 5/355 B65B 57/10 B65B 61/00 B65B 5/02 B65D 5/28	Application no. 16190898.3
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PACKAGING ITEMS VARYING IN SIZE AND NUMBER FOR SHIPMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T324719.20200304				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 308 KB)
D 0007/19 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board DBA	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords -				Application title -
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:D000719.20200218				Distribution	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 249 KB)
T 1921/13 (Authentication of products / INEXTO) of 15.10.2019
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06K 17/00	Application no. 05792643.8
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes) Grounds for opposition - invention not sufficiently disclosed over whole breadth of claim Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MARKING, TRACKING AND AUTHENTICATION OF PRODUCTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T192113.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 421 KB)
T 1609/15 () of 5.12.2019
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 5.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B67C 3/00	Application no. 08701033.6
Keywords Rechtliches Gehör - Fernbleiben von der mündlichen Verhandlung Spät vorgebrachte Argumente - Verlegung der mündlichen Verhandlung wäre erforderlich gewesen (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR REINIGUNG VON GETRÄNKEABFÜLLANLAGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T160915.20191205				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 316 KB)
T 1751/15 (Steam-to-carbon ratio control/MICRO MOTION) of 13.2.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 13.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G05D 11/02 G01F 1/84 C01B 3/34	Application no. 02737293.7
Keywords Admitting of main request filed at oral proceedings - (no): returning to an earlier version Added subject-matter - all other requests (yes)				Application title Steam to carbon ratio control in steam reforming of hydrocarbons
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T175115.20200213				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 2183/15 (Selection and sorting of services/NOKIA) of 12.2.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 12.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04Q 7/20 H04H 1/00	Application no. 04794208.1
Keywords Amendments - intermediate generalisation Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)				Application title APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SERVICE SELECTION AND SORTING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T218315.20200212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 312 KB)
T 0779/16 () of 4.2.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 4.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F04C 29/12	Application no. 09781015.4
Keywords Änderungen - Erweiterung des Patentanspruchs (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (nein)				Application title VAKUUMPUMPE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T077916.20200204				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 368 KB)
T 1178/16 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A01J 5/08 A01J 7/04 A01J 7/02 B08B 9/00 F16K 7/17	Application no. 07103689.1
Keywords Divisional application - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (no, after amendment) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed request - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings				Application title Milking equipment
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T117816.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 412 KB)
T 1815/16 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F04C 18/08 F04C 18/16	Application no. 10747261.5
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title DRY SCREW DRIVER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T181516.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 453 KB)
T 0101/17 () of 29.1.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A47L 13/20 A47L 13/16 A47L 13/24	Application no. 10171437.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Apportionment of costs - (no)				Application title Cleaning element and cleaning tool
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T010117.20200129				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 376 KB)
T 1386/18 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 9/22 B03C 3/40 B03C 3/38	Application no. 10840300.7
Keywords Claims - clarity (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title METAL BELT-PLATE STRUCTURE REACTOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T138618.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 2931/19 () of 14.2.2020
Online on 06.03.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 14.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 5/0488 A61B 5/0492 A61M 16/04 A61N 1/05 A61B 5/00 A61M 16/08 A61M 39/08	Application no. 13812262.7
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title ENDOBRONCHIAL TUBE APPARATUS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T293119.20200214				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 229 KB)
T 1236/15 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08J 5/18 C08L 29/04 C11D 17/04	Application no. 03025704.2
Keywords Main request - inventive step (no) Auxiliary requests - admissibility (no)				Application title Water-soluble film
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T123615.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 434 KB)
T 0284/16 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 51/56	Application no. 06713261.3
Keywords -				Application title FILM FORMING COMPOSITION AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T028416.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 454 KB)
T 0036/17 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B23C 5/20 B23C 5/22	Application no. 11177659.7
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title Indexable, double-sided cutting insert and cutting tool including such an insert
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T003617.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 290 KB)
T 0609/17 () of 4.2.2020
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 4.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 23/10 C09J 123/10 B32B 27/32	Application no. 04755558.6
Keywords Inventive step - (all requests: no)				Application title TACKIFIED AMORPHOUS-POLY-ALPHA-OLEFIN-BONDED STRUCTURES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T060917.20200204				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 441 KB)
T 0991/17 () of 4.12.2019
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60G 17/052 F16K 31/06	Application no. 11787798.5
Keywords Zulassung eines verspätet eingereichten Dokuments - (nein) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title DRUCKLUFTVERSORGUNGSANLAGE UND PNEUMATISCHES SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T099117.20191204				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 481 KB)
T 1047/17 (TREATMENT OF INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS WITH HIGH DOSE CHONDROITIN SULFATE … of 17.12.2019
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/08 A61K 31/737 A61P 13/10 A61K 33/14 A61K 9/00	Application no. 04711966.4
Keywords Admission of documents (yes) Admission of requests (yes) Main request - Novelty (Yes) All requests - Inventive step (No)				Application title TREATMENT OF INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS WITH HIGH DOSE CHONDROITIN SULFATE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T104717.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 449 KB)
T 0756/18 () of 16.12.2019
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 16.12.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC B65B 3/00 B65B 31/02	Application no. 11711610.3
Keywords Droit d'être entendu - vice substantiel de procédure (oui) Remboursement de la taxe de recours - équitable en raison d'un vice substantiel de procédure Renvoi à la première instance - vice majeur dans la procédure de première instance (oui)				Application title PROCEDE ET UNITE D'EMPLISSAGE STERILE D'UN CONTENEUR ELEMENTAIRE FINAL AVEC UN CONTENU DESTINE AU DOMAINE BIOPHARMACEUTIQUE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T075618.20191216				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 333 KB)
T 1977/19 () of 2.3.2020
Online on 05.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 2.3.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A47C 7/50	Application no. 15173027.2
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title Footrest device for armchairs or sofas
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T197719.20200302				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 229 KB)
T 1524/15 (Sequencing method/ILLUMINA) of 5.12.2019
Online on 04.03.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 5.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C12Q 1/68	Application no. 07705178.7
Keywords Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 3 - added subject-matter - (yes) Auxiliary requests 4 and 5 - inventive step - (no) Auxiliary request 7 - requirements of the EPC met - (yes)				Application title Method for sequencing a polynucleotide template
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T152415.20191205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 653 KB)
T 1049/17 (Method of converting NOx/JOHNSON MATTHEY) of 4.12.2019
Online on 04.03.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 4.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 53/94 B01J 23/72 B01J 29/072 B01J 29/76	Application no. 09737470.6
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - (yes) Amendments - pointer to the claimed selection (no) Amendments - main and first auxiliary requets Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Amendments - second auxiliary request Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - second auxiliary request (yes) Novelty - second auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - second auxiliary request (yes)				Application title A METHOD OF CONVERTING NITROGEN OXIDES WITH TRANSITION METAL-CONTAINING ALUMINOSILICATE ZEOLITE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T104917.20191204				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 422 KB)
T 0395/15 () of 29.1.2020
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 27/327 C12Q 1/00 G01N 33/487	Application no. 04813255.9
Keywords Added subject-matter (main request: yes) Consideration of an auxiliary request submitted during first-instance proceedings (first auxiliary request: yes) Clarity of claims (first and second auxiliary requests: no) Admission of amended claims filed during oral proceedings (third auxiliary request: no)				Application title SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYTE SENSORS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T039515.20200129				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 415 KB)
T 1296/15 () of 6.2.2020
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 6.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C09K 11/79 C09K 11/67	Application no. 10803059.4
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Hauptantrag und erster Hilfsantrag (nein) Ausreichende Offenbarung - unzumutbarer Aufwand (ja) Zweiter Hilfsantrag - Änderungen - zulässig (nein)				Application title SICHERHEITSMERKMAL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T129615.20200206				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 340 KB)
T 0057/17 (BIOLOGICAL TISSUE/Edwards Lifesciences) of 28.1.2020
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 27/36 A61L 27/50 A01N 1/02 A61F 2/24	Application no. 07871218.9
Keywords Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no)				Application title BIOLOGICAL TISSUE FOR SURGICAL IMPLANTATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T005717.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 344 KB)
T 2087/17 (Multi-code signalling/SISVEL) of 5.2.2020
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04B 1/707 H04J 11/00 H04B 7/26 H04J 13/00	Application no. 02024039.6
Keywords Priority - "same invention" (no) Inventive step - main and 1st to 4th auxiliary requests (no) Admission of late-filed requests - 5th to 7th auxiliary requests (no): not clearly allowable Admission of request filed during oral proceedings - 8th auxiliary request (no): fresh case and against procedural economy				Application title Method for compact representation of multi-code signaling in communication systems
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T208717.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 343 KB)
T 0513/18 (Überwachung einer Werkzeugmaschine/SCHWÄBISCHE WERKZEUGMASCHINEN) of 10.12.2019
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G05B 19/4063	Application no. 13163801.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (nein)				Application title Verfahren zum Überwachen mindestens einer Werkzeugmaschine
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T051318.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 342 KB)
T 1872/18 () of 14.2.2020
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 14.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G02B 21/36 G02B 21/16 H04N 5/225 H04N 5/915 H04N 1/21 G11B 27/031 G02B 21/00 H04N 5/262	Application no. 07828091.4
Keywords Main and auxiliary requests - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings - prima facie clearly allowable (no) - admitted (no)				Application title MICROSCOPE DEVICE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T187218.20200214				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 366 KB)
T 2646/18 () of 4.12.2019
Online on 03.03.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 4.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 9/008 A61F 9/01 B23K 26/06 B23K 26/00 A61F 9/009	Application no. 10010955.2
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - Gegenstand geht über den Inhalt der früheren Anmeldung hinaus Einspruchsgründe - Hauptantrag (ja) Einspruchsgründe - Hilfsantrag (nein)				Application title Vorrichtung zum präzisen Bearbeiten von Material
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T264618.20191204				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 422 KB)
T 1003/13 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language FR	IPC G06T 7/00	Application no. 08775590.6
Keywords Activité inventive - alternative évidente Requêtes subsidiaires produites tardivement - report de la procédure orale aurait été nécessaire (oui)				Application title PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF DE DETERMINATION DE LA POSE D'UN OBJET TRIDIMENSIONNEL DANS UNE IMAGE ET PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF DE CREATION D'AU MOINS UNE IMAGE CLE POUR LE SUIVI D'OBJETS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T100313.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 400 KB)
T 2148/13 (Urine assay device/ALERE) of 31.10.2019
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 31.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/543 G01N 33/52 G01N 31/22	Application no. 03700843.0
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title LIQUID SAMPLE ASSAY DEVICE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T214813.20191031				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 1714/14 (Cladding tubes / Westinghouse) of 27.11.2019
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G21C 3/07 G21C 21/02 C22F 1/18	Application no. 03809908.1
Keywords Novelty Use established by way of the terms employed to define a physical entity Use not novel despite the absence of evidence that actual use ever took place Apportionment of costs - (no) malicious intention not established General principles - protection of legitimate expectations				Application title METHOD, USE AND DEVICE CONCERNING CLADDING TUBES FOR NUCLEAR FUEL AND A FUEL ASSEMBLY FOR A NUCLEAR PRESSURE WATER REACTOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T171414.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 369 KB)
T 0825/15 (Degummed fatty acid alkyl esters/NOVOZYMES) of 24.2.2020
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 24.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C12P 7/62	Application no. 06753304.2
Keywords Main request - requirements of the EPC met (yes)				Application title ENZYMATIC PRODUCTION OF DEGUMMED FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T082515.20200224				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 426 KB)
T 0983/15 (Mobilitätsverwaltung von Endgeräten in Mobilfunknetzen/SBB) of 28.1.2020
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC H04W 4/00	Application no. 07113889.5
Keywords Ausführbarkeit der beanspruchten Erfindung - (nein)				Application title Verfahren für die Mobilitätsverwaltung von Endgeräten in Mobilfunknetzen, Mobilfunknetz und Mobilendgerät
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T098315.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 919 KB)
T 0709/17 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 403/06 A61K 31/506 A61P 31/10	Application no. 10737869.7
Keywords Insufficiency of disclosure Novelty Inventive step				Application title A 1-(1H-1,2,4-TRIAZOL-1-YL)BUTAN-2-OL DERIVATIVE FOR PHARMACEUTICAL USE, AND THE USE OF A 1-(1H-1,2,4-TRIAZOL-1-YL)BUTAN-2-OL DERIVATE WITH SUBSTANTIALLY UNDEFINED CRYSTAL SHAPE FOR PREPARING SAID 1-(1H-1,2,4-TRIAZOL-1-YL)BUTAN-2-OL DERIVATIVE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T070917.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 339 KB)
T 0924/17 () of 11.10.2019
Online on 02.03.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B62D 15/02 B60W 50/08 B60W 30/095 B60W 50/14 B60Q 9/00 B60R 21/01 B62D 1/00 B60W 30/08 B60W 10/18 B60R 25/104	Application no. 10177323.2
Keywords Admissibility of appeal (yes) Inventive step (main request, auxiliary request 2 and 3: no) Admissibility of late filed request (no)				Application title Method for an automotive hazardous detection and information system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T092417.20191011				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 411 KB)

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T 0384/16 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 28.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 7/00	Application no. 01650041.5
Keywords Amendments Claims - clarity Late-filed auxiliary requests Late-filed facts				Application title Rheological additives and paint and coating compositions containing such additives exhibiting improved intercoat adhesion
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T038416.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 413 KB)
T 0775/16 (Triple combination for brain health/NUTRICIA) of 21.11.2019
Online on 28.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 21.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/7072 A61K 31/202 A61K 31/355 A61K 45/06 A61K 9/48 A61P 25/28	Application no. 08844952.5
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Inventive step - all requests				Application title UNIT DOSAGE FOR BRAIN HEALTH
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T077516.20191121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 377 KB)
T 0908/17 (Ni(0) enthaltendes Katalysatorsystem für Hydrocyanierung/BASF) of 4.12.2019
Online on 28.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 4.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B01J 31/18 B01J 31/24 C07C 253/10	Application no. 02791454.8
Keywords Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (ja, D4 und D5; nein, D1a und D1b) Spät eingereichter, neuer Hauptantrag - zugelassen (ja) Änderungen - neuer Hauptantrag Änderungen - (formal) gewährbar (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - neuer Hauptantrag Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Application title Ni(0) ENTHALTENDES KATALYSATORSYSTEM FÜR HYDROCYANIERUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T090817.20191204				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 471 KB)
T 2720/17 (Dry powder formulation of glycopyrrolate / VECTURA) of 21.2.2020
Online on 28.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 21.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/00 A61K 47/12 A61K 31/40	Application no. 11190637.6
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title Dry powder compositions of glycopyrrolate and magnesium stearate
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T272017.20200221				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 398 KB)
T 0041/15 () of 25.10.2019
Online on 27.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 25.10.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC H02K 7/08	Application no. 08170130.2
Keywords Activité inventive - (non)				Application title Couronne d'orientation motorisée
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T004115.20191025				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 347 KB)
T 1714/15 (Low-temperature impact-resistant poylamide-based stretch-oriented … of 20.1.2020
Online on 27.02.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 27/34 B29C 71/02	Application no. 01941175.0
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes) (Main request) Sufficiency of disclosure - enablement over the whole lifetime of the patent Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request (no)				Application title LOW-TEMPERATURE IMPACT-RESISTANT POLYAMIDE-BASED STRETCH-ORIENTED MULTILAYER FILM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T171415.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 385 KB)
T 0164/16 () of 9.1.2020
Online on 27.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/532 A61F 13/536 A61F 13/42	Application no. 10714522.9
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary request - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title ABSORBENT ARTICLES COMPRISING WETNESS INDICATORS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T016416.20200109				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 325 KB)
T 2383/16 (Method for moving interface object / Huawei) of 13.12.2019
Online on 27.02.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 13.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 3/0481 G06F 3/0486 G06F 17/21	Application no. 13194556.0
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Novelty - auxiliary request (no)				Application title Method for moving interface object and apparatus for supporting movement of interface object
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T238316.20191213				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306 KB)
T 1494/18 () of 22.10.2019
Online on 27.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A45C5/03	Application no. 15189148.8
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title SCHALENKOFFER, INSBESONDERE HARTSCHALENKOFFER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T149418.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 397 KB)
T 2455/13 (Überwachung von Kapitalunterlegungshöhen bei Risikoereignissen/SWISS … of 29.1.2020
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G06Q 40/00	Application no. 05762958.6
Keywords Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (nein) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - kein Vorliegen besonderer Gründe Erfinderische Tätigkeit (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Mischung technischer und nichttechnischer Merkmale Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Technische Merkmale aus dem Stand der Technik vorbekannt Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Naheliegende Implementierung der nicht-technischen geschäftsbezogenen Unterschiede				Application title SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR RÜCKGEKOPPELTEN, DYNAMISCHEN ÜBERWACHUNG VON UNTERLEGUNGSHÖHEN BEI RISIKOEREIGNISSEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T245513.20200129				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 390 KB)
T 0094/14 (Muscle Stimulator / Mainstay Medical) of 13.11.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 13.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61N 1/00	Application no. 08726632.6
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Claims - clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes)				Application title MUSCLE STIMULATOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T009414.20191113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 362 KB)
T 1015/14 (Abstandsmessung mittels modulierten Lichtstrahlen / FARO Technologies … of 13.12.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 13.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G01S 17/10 G01S 17/36	Application no. 09706836.5
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Application title VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM BESTIMMEN EINER ENTFERNUNG ZU EINEM OBJEKT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T101514.20191213				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 352 KB)
T 0213/15 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C10M 163/00 C10M 101/02 C10M 129/54 C10M 135/36 C10M 137/04 C10M 159/22 C10M 141/10 C10N 40/04	Application no. 06782833.5
Keywords Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed documents Late-filed document - admitted (no) Late-filed allegation of fact - admitted (no) Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)				Application title LUBRICANT OIL COMPOSITION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T021315.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 475 KB)
T 1265/15 (Processor address generation unit/ERICSSON) of 19.2.2020
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.5.06	Decision date 19.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 9/34 G06F 9/38	Application no. 03717501.5
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes) Special reasons for remittal - (yes)				Application title AN ADDRESS GENERATION UNIT FOR A PROCESSOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T126515.20200219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 315 KB)
T 0350/16 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F28D 9/00 F28F 3/04	Application no. 06776149.4
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - naheliegende Änderung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (nein)				Application title PLATTENELEMENT FÜR EINEN PLATTENKÜHLER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T035016.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 352 KB)
T 0673/16 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61L 9/05 C11D 17/00 C11D 3/50	Application no. 11156537.0
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)				Application title Reinigungs- und Beduftungsmittel für den Sanitärbereich
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T067316.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 336 KB)
T 1171/16 () of 21.2.2020
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 21.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/53	Application no. 05255736.0
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary requests (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (yes)				Application title Drapeable sanitary absorbent napkin
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T117116.20200221				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 346 KB)
T 1997/16 () of 6.12.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C08F 6/00	Application no. 10760727.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - naheliegende Alternative				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR NACHBEFEUCHTUNG OBERFLÄCHENNACHVERNETZTER WASSERABSORBIERENDER POLYMERPARTIKEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T199716.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 374 KB)
T 2443/16 () of 27.11.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 9/02 C08K 5/098 C08K 9/00 C09K 3/10 F16G 1/06	Application no. 07767413.3
Keywords Novelty- main request Novelty - (yes) Novelty - product-by-process feature makes structural contribution Inventive step - main request Inventive step - (yes)				Application title NITRILE RUBBER COMPOSITION, CROSSLINKABLE NITRILE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND CROSSLINKED RUBBER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T244316.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 548 KB)
T 0178/17 () of 20.2.2020
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 20.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 22/02	Application no. 11723598.6
Keywords Claims: clarity and support in the description (all requests: no)				Application title RF REFLECTION FOR INSPECTING CARBON FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T017817.20200220				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 298 KB)
T 2465/17 () of 17.10.2019
Online on 26.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 17.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60Q 1/32 B60Q 1/26	Application no. 11195987.0
Keywords Neuheit - (nein) Neuheit - Hauptantrag, Hilfsantrag 2 Zulassung in das Verfahren - (nein) - Hilfsantrag 1 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 3, 4, 4.1, 4.2				Application title Außenliegendes Montagebauteil für ein Fahrzeug mit einem Lichtmodul
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T246517.20191017				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 362 KB)
T 1902/13 (Assessing competence levels/SWISS RE) of 4.7.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 4.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 10/00	Application no. 05706524.5
Keywords Inventive step - assessing the competence of an organisation by processing score data (no Inventive step - obvious implementation of a business method)				Application title COMPUTER-BASED METHOD FOR ASSESSING COMPETENCE OF AN ORGANIZATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T190213.20190704				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 355 KB)
T 0168/15 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 31/0216	Application no. 11006399.7
Keywords Inventive step - main request and auxiliary requests 1 and 2 Inventive step - (no) Late-filed auxiliary request 3 - admitted (no)				Application title Solar cell
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T016815.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 392 KB)
T 0053/16 (Non-tobacco moist snuff/SWEDISH MATCH) of 18.11.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A24B 15/18 A24B 15/16 A24D 1/18	Application no. 07748070.5
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed facts - admitted (no)				Application title A MOIST SNUFF NON-TOBACCO COMPOSITION AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF.
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T005316.20191118				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 421 KB)
T 0664/16 (Gegen Missbrauch gesicherte Darreichungsform / GRÜNENTHAL) of 21.11.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 21.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 9/22 A61K 31/135	Application no. 05769988.6
Keywords Spät eingereichte Anträge - eingereicht in der mündlichen Verhandlung - zugelassen (ja) Hauptantrag - Priorität - Erste Anmeldung (nein) Hauptantrag - Neuheit (nein) Hilfsantrag - Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (nein) Hilfsantrag - Änderungen - Klarheit (ja) Hilfsantrag - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Hilfsantrag - Neuheit (ja) Hilfsantrag - Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title GEGEN MISSBRAUCH GESICHERTE, ORALE DARREICHUNGSFORM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T066416.20191121				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 558 KB)
T 0845/16 (Sequencing method/ILLUMINA) of 22.11.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C12Q 1/68	Application no. 07824052.0
Keywords Claims as granted Claims - requirements of the EPC met Claims - (yes)				Application title Method for sequencing a polynucleotide template
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T084516.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 376 KB)
T 0889/16 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G07C 5/08 H04L 29/08	Application no. 08787140.6
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - alle Anträge Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Application title DIAGNOSEVERFAHREN FÜR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T088916.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 391 KB)
T 1892/16 () of 8.11.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B63C 9/00 B65D 25/42 F16K 15/20 F16K 41/08	Application no. 05717964.0
Keywords inventive step (auxiliary request 3 : yes) main request (novelty : no)				Application title FLUID FLOW CONNECTOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T189216.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 301 KB)
T 0458/17 () of 29.1.2020
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E01C 19/48	Application no. 09014845.3
Keywords Neuheit - implizite Offenbarung Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - allgemeines Fachwissen Erfinderische Tätigkeit - rückschauende Betrachtungsweise Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Verfahren zur Leistungsregelung eines Straßenfertigers oder Beschickers und Straßenfertiger oder Beschicker
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T045817.20200129				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 388 KB)
T 1508/17 () of 31.1.2020
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 31.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B64C 35/00 B64C 3/56	Application no. 10786579.2
Keywords Claims - clarity (yes) Novelty - (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title WINGTIP AND SPONSON INTERACTION ON AN AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T150817.20200131				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 343 KB)
T 1557/17 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B21B 13/14 B21B 27/02	Application no. 10775807.0
Keywords Neuheit - (nein)				Application title WALZGERÜST ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON WALZBAND
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T155717.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 273 KB)
T 0155/18 () of 4.2.2020
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B60C 23/00 B60C 15/024	Application no. 07721824.6
Keywords Grounds for opposition - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (yes) Amendments - inescapable trap (yes)				Application title A CHAMBER OF A PERISTALTIC PUMP FOR TIRE PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T015518.20200204				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 302 KB)
T 2800/18 () of 6.12.2019
Online on 25.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC E06B 3/663	Application no. 09010884.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Late-filed evidence - admitted (no) Late-filed document - admitted (yes)				Application title Spacer profile for a spacer frame for an insulating window unit and insulating window unit
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T280018.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 437 KB)
T 0084/15 () of 8.1.2020
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 231/44	Application no. 06744557.7
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF FIPRONIL, AN INSECTICIDE, AND RELATED PYRAZOLES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T008415.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 425 KB)
T 0969/15 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C09D 175/04 C09C 1/00 C09C 1/64 C09D 5/36	Application no. 08758569.1
Keywords Neuheit Beschwerdebegründung - unsubstantiierter Sachvortrag eines Beteiligten				Application title WÄSSRIGE, PIGMENTIERTE BESCHICHTUNGSMITTEL, VERFAHREN ZU DEREN HERSTELLUNG UND DEREN VERWENDUNG ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON MEHRSCHICHTLACKIERUNGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T096915.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 509 KB)
T 1232/15 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G09B 21/00	Application no. 08161184.0
Keywords Ausnahmen von der Patentierbarkeit - Diagnostizierverfahren Ausnahmen von der Patentierbarkeit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nach Änderung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Haptikstreifen und daraus hergestelltes taktiles Orientierungs- und Koordinatensystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T123215.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 334 KB)
T 1552/15 () of 5.12.2019
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 5.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H01L 27/146	Application no. 11006012.6
Keywords Neuheit - nach Änderung Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nach Änderung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Halbleiterstruktur zur Photonendetektion
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T155215.20191205				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 334 KB)
T 2063/15 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B66B 5/00	Application no. 08758980.0
Keywords Novelty - Main request and auxiliary request 2 (no) Clarity - auxiliary request 1 (no) Amendments occasioned by a ground for opposition Amendments - auxiliary request 2 (yes), auxiliary request 3 (no) Remittal - auxiliary request 4 (yes)				Application title SINGLE BRAKESHOE TEST (ELECTRICAL) FOR ELEVATORS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T206315.20191212				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 482 KB)
T 0363/16 () of 18.2.2020
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 18.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC E02D 7/26 E02D 7/28	Application no. 03723499.4
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (no)				Application title METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLACING AT LEAST ONE FOUNDATION ELEMENT IN THE GROUND
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T036316.20200218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 0097/17 (Galvanising method/Tata) of 27.11.2019
Online on 24.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C21D 1/52 C21D 9/56 C23C 2/02 C23C 2/06 C23C 2/40 F27B 9/06	Application no. 10193219.2
Keywords Main request - inventive step (no) First auxiliary request - admissible (yes), allowable (yes)				Application title Method of galvanising a steel strip in a continuous hot dip galvanising line
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T009717.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 451 KB)
T 1744/14 () of 22.11.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 487/04 A61K 31/519 A61P 7/02 A61P 9/10	Application no. 04015299.3
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Priority - basis in priority document (yes)				Application title New crystalline and amorphous form of a triazolo(4,5-D)pyrimidine compound
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T174414.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 438 KB)
T 0304/15 () of 2.12.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 2.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H05B 6/12 H05B 6/06	Application no. 07115692.1
Keywords Late-filed requests not admitted Late-filed request - no convincing justification for late filing, detrimental to procedural economy				Application title An Improved Induction Cooking Appliance and a Method for Checking the Cooking Capabilities of a Piece of Cookware
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T030415.20191202				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 2029/15 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 41/187 C04B 35/475 H01L 41/43	Application no. 09816590.5
Keywords Late-filed main request - admitted (yes) Inventive step - all requests Inventive step - (no)				Application title NBT BASED LEAD-FREE PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T202915.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 391 KB)
T 2153/15 () of 27.1.2020
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 27.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H02M 7/493	Application no. 10774240.5
Keywords Late-filed request - justification for late filing (no)				Application title Control method for arranging DC/AC converters in parallel
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T215315.20200127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 350 KB)
T 2269/15 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A01N 1/00	Application no. 04763576.8
Keywords Inventive step Late-filed request Late-filed document Sufficiency of disclosure				Application title ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T226915.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 370 KB)
T 1434/16 () of 29.11.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 29.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E05B 65/12	Application no. 11001070.9
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - Klarheit im Einspruchsbeschwerdeverfahren Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Einspruchsgründe - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Spät eingereichtes Dokument - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Kraftfahrzeugschließsystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T143416.20191129				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 460 KB)
T 2246/16 (PROCESS TO ENRICH A CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOSITION/ Grupo Petromex) of 10.12.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 51/42 C07C 63/26	Application no. 06851350.6
Keywords Late-filed requests Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title A PROCESS TO ENRICH A CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOSITION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T224616.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 434 KB)
T 1303/17 () of 26.11.2019
Online on 21.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 26.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A47B 47/04 A47B 96/20 F16B 12/26 B27N 3/02 B32B 21/00	Application no. 09807461.0
Keywords Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes) Late-filed argument - admitted (no) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title COMPOSED ELEMENT, MULTI-LAYERED BOARD AND PANEL-SHAPED ELEMENT FOR FORMING THIS COMPOSED ELEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T130317.20191126				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 355 KB)
T 1001/13 (Expressionshemmung/ALNYLAM) of 9.1.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 9.1.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C12N 15/11	Application no. 02702247.4
Keywords Hauptantrag (Patent in der erteilten Fassung) - hinreichende Offenbarung (nein) 1. Hilfsantrag - hinreichende Offenbarung (nein) 2. und 3. Hilfsantrag - Zulassung ins Verfahren (nein) 4. Hilfsantrag - hinreichende Offenbarung (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR HEMMUNG DER EXPRESSION EINES ZIELGENS UND MEDIKAMENT ZUR THERAPIE EINER TUMORERKRANKUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T100113.20190109				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 496 KB)
T 0086/14 (Antennenmodul / CONTINENTAL) of 8.11.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H01Q 1/08 H01Q 1/32 H01Q 1/42 H01Q 21/28 H01Q 23/00 H01Q 1/12	Application no. 07010729.7
Keywords Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Antennenmodul, insbesondere als zentrales Sende- und/oder Empfangsmodul für ein Fahrzeug, mit mehreren Antennen und mehreren Sende- und/oder Empfangseinrichtungen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T008614.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 319 KB)
T 0012/15 (Compositions comprising PUFAs, B Vitamins and uridine or cytidine to … of 20.8.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 20.8.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/202 A61K 31/4415 A61K 31/519 A61K 31/714 A61P 25/00	Application no. 02780164.6
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Inventive step - improvement not credible Inventive step - obvious alternative Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes) Late-filed request - submitted during oral proceedings Late-filed request - admitted (yes)				Application title PREPARATION FOR IMPROVING THE ACTION OF RECEPTORS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T001215.20190820				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 972 KB)
T 0263/15 () of 9.12.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 9.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 5/20 B65D 5/42 B65D 5/56	Application no. 07804082.1
Keywords Amendments - broadening of claim (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title METHOD OF PREPARING WEB MATERIAL FOR PRODUCTION OF RECEPTACLES FOR FOOD OR OTHER PRODUCTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T026315.20191209				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 349 KB)
T 0774/15 () of 25.11.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01J 61/28 H01J 61/70 H01J 61/52	Application no. 07705734.7
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main request (no) Novelty - "main request b" (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title LOW-PRESSURE MERCURY VAPOR DISCHARGE LAMP WITH AMALGAM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T077415.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 416 KB)
T 0234/16 () of 26.11.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 26.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01J 61/28 H01J 61/70 H01J 61/52	Application no. 12152823.6
Keywords Claims - clarity in opposition appeal proceedings Grounds for opposition - fresh ground for opposition Grounds for opposition - not admitted into appeal proceedings Late-filed novelty objection - admitted (no) New inventive step objections - admitted (no)				Application title Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp with amalgam, lamp system, water treatment system, use of a lamp system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T023416.20191126				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 354 KB)
T 0278/17 (Air Filter/Donaldson) of 13.2.2020
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 13.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 46/52 F02M 35/024	Application no. 10167077.6
Keywords Divisional application - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (no, after amendment) Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Late-filed request - justification for late filing (yes) Late-filed request - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes)				Application title Air filter arrangement, assembly, and methods
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T027817.20200213				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 287 KB)
T 0296/17 () of 19.12.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 19.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 2/08 A61F 2/06 B65B 55/02	Application no. 11195520.9
Keywords Admissibility of opposition - (no)				Application title Reduced temperature sterilization of stents
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T029617.20191219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 295 KB)
T 1599/17 (Cell ID acquisition in wireless FDMA system/QUALCOMM) of 14.2.2020
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 14.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 27/26 H04Q 7/32 H04J 13/00	Application no. 07841291.3
Keywords Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title ACQUISITION IN FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEMS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T159917.20200214				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 275 KB)
T 2523/17 (Probengefäßmatrix/PerkinElmer) of 6.12.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B01L 3/00	Application no. 10787020.6
Keywords Klarheit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Application title PROBENGEFÄSSMATRIX UND DEREN HERSTELLUNGSVERFAHREN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T252317.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 335 KB)
T 1695/18 (Hypoglycaemia/LÜCK) of 26.9.2019
Online on 20.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 26.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/47 A61P 13/00	Application no. 09797440.6
Keywords Transfer of opponent status (yes) Novelty - main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 7 (no) Novelty - non-limiting, non-therapeutic use Admission of late filed requests - auxiliary requests 16 to 23 (no)				Application title SUPPLEMENTATION OF PROPANE-1,2,3-TRIOL AND WATER IN FASTING SUBJECTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T169518.20190926				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 553 KB)
T 2180/15 () of 15.11.2019
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 15.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC F25J 3/04	Application no. 04722884.6
Keywords Exposé insuffisant - (non) Motifs d'opposition - extension de l'objet du brevet (oui) Motifs d'opposition - nouveau motif d'opposition (oui) Activité inventive - (oui)				Application title PROCEDE ET INSTALLATION DE SEPARATION D'AIR PAR DISTILLATION CRYOGENIQUE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T218015.20191115				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 350 KB)
T 1340/16 (IgA secretion due to probiotics/NESTLE) of 11.12.2019
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 35/74 A23L 1/29 A23L 1/30	Application no. 09800034.2
Keywords Main request and auxiliary requests 1 and 3 - inventive step (no) Late-filed request auxiliary request 2 Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title PROBIOTICS TO INCREASE IGA SECRETION IN INFANTS BORN BY CAESAREAN SECTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T134016.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 353 KB)
T 2041/16 () of 5.2.2020
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G01C 21/34	Application no. 11735998.4
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (nein)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUM ERMITTELN DER REICHWEITE EINES KRAFTFAHRZEUGS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T204116.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 342 KB)
T 2669/16 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F04B 23/00 F04D 13/16	Application no. 10000378.9
Keywords Neuheit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung - Hilfsantrag (ja) Änderungen - Offenbarung durch Zeichnung				Application title Pumpeinrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T266916.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 421 KB)
T 0155/17 () of 28.1.2020
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C08G 65/26 C08G 65/00	Application no. 11719029.8
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON POLYETHERCARBONATPOLYOLEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T015517.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 357 KB)
T 1543/17 () of 29.11.2019
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 29.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 236/12 C08F 2/22 C08L 13/02 A61B 19/04	Application no. 03707139.6
Keywords Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal (admitted: yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title DIP-FORMING LATEX, DIP-FORMING COMPOSITION AND DIP-FORMED ARTICLE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T154317.20191129				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 427 KB)
T 2717/17 (Buprenorphine/ HEXAL) of 28.11.2019
Online on 19.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 47/12 A61K 47/14 A61K 31/485 A61K 9/70	Application no. 11784951.3
Keywords Late-filed document - admitted (no) Late-filed attack on inventive step - admitted (no) Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title TRANSDERMAL THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM COMPRISING BUPRENORPHINE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T271717.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 448 KB)
T 0079/14 (Antennenmodul / CONTINENTAL) of 8.11.2019
Online on 18.02.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H01Q 1/08 H01Q 1/12 H01Q 1/32 H01Q 1/42 H01Q 21/28 H01Q 23/00	Application no. 07010730.5
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Rechtfertigung für späte Vorlage (nein)				Application title Antennenmodul, insbesondere als zentrales Sende- und/oder Empfangsmodul für ein Fahrzeug, mit mehreren Antennen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T007914.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 400 KB)
T 0447/16 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 18.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F03D 9/00 H02J 3/36 H02J 3/38	Application no. 01811203.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Windenenergiesystem sowie Verfahren zum Betrieb eines solchen Windenenergiesystems
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T044716.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 318 KB)
T 0560/16 (TDK/magnetic material) of 19.11.2019
Online on 18.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01F 1/11 H01F 1/113 C04B 35/26 H01K 1/02 G11B 5/706 C01G 49/00	Application no. 04013256.5
Keywords Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes) Auxiliary requests - admitted (yes) Inventive step - main request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary requests 1-4 (no) Clarity - auxiliary requests 5-9 (no)				Application title Oxide magnetic material, ferrite particle, sintered magnet, bonded magnet, magnetic recording medium and motor
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T056016.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 411 KB)
T 2063/14 (Procalcitonin in diabetes/BRAHMS) of 28.11.2019
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/68 G01N 33/74	Application no. 10188289.2
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - notice of appeal Admissibility of appeal - request defining subject of appeal Late-filed evidence - admitted (no) Novelty - (yes) Right to be heard - opportunity to comment (yes)				Application title Use of procalcitonin (PCT) in risk stratification and prognosis of patients with a primary, non-infectious disease
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T206314.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 298 KB)
T 2367/15 (Process for producing glass/resin composite/AGC) of 16.1.2020
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B32B 17/10 B29C 47/06 C03B 17/06	Application no. 09703567.9
Keywords Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no) Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GLASS/RESIN COMPOSITE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T236715.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 328 KB)
T 0918/16 (Pioglitazone and metformin/TAKEDA) of 7.11.2019
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 45/06 A61K 31/41 A61K 31/13	Application no. 03751344.7
Keywords Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (no)				Application title SOLID PREPARATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T091816.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 531 KB)
T 1627/17 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 210/06 C08F 210/16	Application no. 05853858.8
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title ARTICLES HAVING IMPROVED CLARITY, PREPARED FROM PROPYLENE-ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T162717.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 391 KB)
T 0031/18 (HIGH DRUG LOAD TABLET/Novartis AG, Novartis Pharma GmbH) of 26.11.2019
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 26.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/16 A61K 9/26 A61K 9/28 A61K 47/32 A61K 47/38 A61K 31/505	Application no. 03722519.0
Keywords Admission of late filed documents (No) All requests - Inventive step (no) Experiments submitted after the filing date as evidence for inventive step - Taken in consideration (yes)				Application title HIGH DRUG LOAD TABLET
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T003118.20191126				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 455 KB)
T 0313/18 () of 11.2.2020
Online on 17.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 11.2.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 31/22 A61K 31/225 A61Q 3/00 A61P 31/10 A61K 47/10 A61K 9/00	Application no. 08734983.3
Keywords Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - Beschwerdeschrift Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - Name und Anschrift des Beschwerdeführers				Application title TOPISCH ANWENDBARE FUNGIZIDE MITTEL ZUR NAGELBEHANDLUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T031318.20200211				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 238 KB)
R 0001/19 (Fundamental violation of the right to be heard) of 17.10.2019
Online on 14.02.2020	Board EBA	Decision date 17.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/573 A61K 31/593 A61K 9/00 A61K 9/06 A61K 47/06 A61K 47/10 A61P 17/06	Application no. 11196067.0
Keywords Petition admissible (yes) - obligation to raise objection (no) Right to be heard - violation (no) no obligation for a Board to inform a party that it deems a particular argument relevant				Application title Pharmaceutical composition for dermal use comprising calcipotriol and betamethasone for treating psoriasis
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:R000119.20191017				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 383 KB)
T 0358/14 () of 23.1.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/445	Application no. 00308714.5
Keywords Inventive step - main request (no) Inventive step - first and second auxiliary requests (no) Claims - clarity Claims - first and second auxiliary requests (no)				Application title Improvements relating to an electronic programme guide
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T035814.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 349 KB)
T 0777/14 () of 16.1.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC C07C 253/10 C07C 253/30	Application no. 05701177.7
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Alternative				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON ADIPODINITRIL DURCH HYDROCYANIERUNG VON 1,3-BUTADIEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T077714.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 355 KB)
T 1187/15 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61B 5/02 A61B 5/024 A61B 5/087 A61B 5/0205 A61B 5/0404	Application no. 05786636.0
Keywords Main request and auxiliary requests I to X - added subject-matter (yes) Late filed auxiliary request XI - admitted (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND PRESENTATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T118715.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 443 KB)
T 1458/15 () of 10.10.2019
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/56	Application no. 03812298.2
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure Grounds for opposition - main request (yes), auxiliary request 1 (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request 1 (yes)				Application title DISPOSABLE DIAPER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T145815.20191010				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 333 KB)
T 2288/15 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/58	Application no. 04751815.4
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Claims - clarity (no) Procedural economy - Reasons 5.1.1 to 5.1.7				Application title FASTENING FILM SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A FASTENING FILM SYSTEM AND A SUBSTRATE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T228815.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 432 KB)
T 0653/16 () of 24.1.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 24.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F02B 63/04 H02K 7/18	Application no. 08803818.7
Keywords Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (ja) Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Änderungen - Kategoriewechsel Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - rückschauende Betrachtungsweise Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Could-would approach				Application title SCHWIMMFÄHIGE HAFENSTROMVERSORGUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T065316.20200124				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 421 KB)
T 1082/16 () of 21.11.2019
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 21.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F16D 13/58	Application no. 04002150.3
Keywords Verspätetes Vorbringen Neuheit Erfinderische Tätigkeit				Application title Reibungskupplung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T108216.20191121				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 478 KB)
T 1597/16 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E04F 15/00 B05D 7/08 B05D 3/06	Application no. 05746316.8
Keywords Spät eingereichter Antrag - zugelassen (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)				Application title PANEEL AUS HOLZWERKSTOFF MIT OBERFLÄCHENBESCHICHTUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T159716.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 312 KB)
T 2619/16 () of 20.11.2019
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 20.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08F 12/08 C08F 4/34	Application no. 10712412.5
Keywords Inventive step - (main request: no) Auxiliary requests submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal - admitted (no)				Application title AQUEOUS SOLID DIACYL PEROXIDE SUSPENSION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T261916.20191120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 346 KB)
T 0600/18 (Storm Emma) of 4.2.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 4.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B64C 13/46	Application no. 10765486.5
Keywords Re-establishment of rights (no) Re-establishment of rights - no conclusive case presented in request Re-establishment of rights - due care on the part of the professional representative (no)				Application title TACTILE CUEING APPARATUS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T060018.20200204				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 302 KB)
T 2274/18 (Method For Treating Human Perspiration /L'ORÉAL) of 7.2.2020
Online on 14.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 7.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 8/96 A61K 8/02 A61K 8/26 A61K 8/25 A61K 8/19 A61K 8/28 A61Q 15/00	Application no. 09737000.1
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title COSMETIC METHOD FOR TREATING HUMAN PERSPIRATION USING PARTICLES OF AN EXPANDED AMORPHOUS MINERAL MATERIAL; COMPOSITIONS.
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T227418.20200207				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 290 KB)
T 2248/14 (DNA polymerases/ILLUMINA) of 26.11.2019
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 26.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 9/12	Application no. 10180445.8
Keywords Main request - admission (yes); added-subject-matter (yes);				Application title Modified DNA polymerases for improved incorporation of nucleotide analogues
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T224814.20191126				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 386 KB)
T 0134/15 (Echtzeitsteuerverfahren für eine Steuerungseinrichtung/SIEMENS) of 21.1.2020
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G05B 19/05	Application no. 04019104.1
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsantrag 1 (nein) Unzulässige Erweiterung - Hilfsanträge 2 und 3 (ja) Zulassung - Hilfsantrag 4 (nein): verspätet und nicht konvergent				Application title Echtzeitsteuerverfahren für eine Steuerungseinrichtung eines industriellen technischen Prozesses und Echtzeitbetriebsverfahren für eine Recheneinrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T013415.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 363 KB)
T 1331/15 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/778 H01L 21/60 H01L 23/36	Application no. 03800265.5
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title GROUP III NITRIDE BASED FLIP-CHIP INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T133115.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 400 KB)
T 1025/17 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E05D 5/02 E05D 5/04 E05D 7/04	Application no. 08020799.6
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - (nein)				Application title Scharnierbeschlag zur schwenkbaren Befestigung des Rahmens eines Fensterladens
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T102517.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 541 KB)
T 1665/18 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08H 8/00 C10G 1/00 C10L 1/02 C10L 5/44 C08L 1/02 C08L 97/02 C08J 3/28 C10G 3/00 C10G 15/00 C10G 32/00 C10G 49/12 C12M 1/00 C12P 3/00 C12P 5/00 C12P 7/04 C12P 7/10 C12P 7/16 C12P 7/02	Application no. 11007752.6
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title Method of preparation of alcohols, organic acids, proteins, sugars, hydrocarbons, and mixtures thereof from biomass
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T166518.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 310 KB)
T 1854/18 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 13.02.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08H 8/00 C10G 1/00 C10L 1/02 C10L 5/44 C08L 1/02 C08L 97/02 C08J 3/28 C10G 3/00 C10G 15/00 C10G 32/00 C10G 49/12 C12M 1/00 C12P 3/00 C12P 5/00 C12P 7/04 C12P 7/10 C12P 7/16 C12P 7/02	Application no. 11007747.6
Keywords Divisional application - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (no, after amendment) Divisional application - added subject-matter (no) Divisional application - after amendment Remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title Method for generating energy
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T185418.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 300 KB)
T 0233/15 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H05B 6/06	Application no. 06742762.5
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (ja) Spät eingereichter Antrag - Antrag hätte bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorgebracht werden können (ja)				Application title Verfahren und Anordnung zur Leistungsversorgung mehrerer Induktionsspulen bei einem Induktionsgerät
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T023315.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 415 KB)
T 1875/15 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C10M 141/10 C10M 161/00	Application no. 03709392.9
Keywords Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed objections - admitted (no)				Application title LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS WITH GOOD THERMAL STABILITY AND DEMULSIBILITY PROPERTIES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T187515.20191203				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 604 KB)
T 2259/15 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B07B 1/46	Application no. 07820480.7
Keywords Mündliche Verhandlung - Fernbleiben von der mündlichen Verhandlung Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (nein) Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUM KLASSIEREN WASSERABSORBIERENDER POLYMERPARTIKEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T225915.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 459 KB)
T 1181/16 (DD Washer/Valmet) of 11.11.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 11.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC D21C 9/06	Application no. 06747848.7
Keywords Novelty - public prior use (no) Novelty - insufficient substantiation/ evidence Inventive step - (yes)				Application title ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF CELLULOSE PULP IN A WASHING APPARATUS ARRANGED WITH A REINFORCING FRAME
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T118116.20191111				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 342 KB)
T 2155/16 () of 10.1.2020
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A47L 15/42 D06F 39/00	Application no. 09015603.5
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title Dishwasher
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T215516.20200110				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 461 KB)
T 2350/16 () of 18.10.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 18.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B42D 15/10	Application no. 05778617.0
Keywords Übertragung der Einsprechendenstellung (nein) Zulassung der Vergleichsversuche (ja) Neuheit (nein: Hauptantrag; ja: Hilfsantrag I) Zulässigkeit des Disclaimers (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja: Hilfsantrag I)				Application title METALLISIERTES SICHERHEITSELEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T235016.20191018				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 1 MB)
T 2633/16 (UTILISATION D'ACIDES BENZOÏQUES HALOGENES / TOTAL) of 28.11.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC C09K 8/58 E21B 47/10	Application no. 11720588.0
Keywords Activité inventive - (oui) Preuves produites tardivement - auraient pu être produites en première instance (non)				Application title UTILISATION D'ACIDES BENZOÏQUES HALOGENES POUR LE MARQUAGE D'EAU D'INJECTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T263316.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 388 KB)
T 1449/17 () of 15.1.2020
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B60C 5/04 B60C 29/04	Application no. 12170727.7
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Schlauchsystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T144917.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 296 KB)
T 1497/17 () of 15.1.2020
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B60C 5/04 B60C 29/04	Application no. 12170728.5
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein) Spät eingereichte Tatsachen - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Schlauchsystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T149717.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 293 KB)
T 0372/18 () of 30.1.2020
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 30.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 16/027	Application no. 14306297.4
Keywords Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Anordnung für in einem Kraftfahrzeug montierte elektrische Leitungen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T037218.20200130				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 273 KB)
T 1085/18 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B66C 19/00 B66C 13/22	Application no. 10763602.9
Keywords Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Patentansprüche - Klarheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Spät eingereichter Antrag - Antrag hätte bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorgebracht werden können (nein)				Application title PORTALHUBWAGEN ZUM EINSATZ IN CONTAINERTERMINALS UND FÜR ALLGEMEINE TRANSPORTZWECKE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T108518.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 285 KB)
T 1841/19 () of 3.2.2020
Online on 12.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 3.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61C 7/00 A61C 7/08	Application no. 09746147.9
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title DENTAL APPLIANCE REINFORCEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T184119.20200203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 220 KB)
T 2227/15 () of 29.1.2020
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B26B 19/06 B26B 19/20 B26B 19/38	Application no. 09251666.5
Keywords Late-filed lines of attack - admitted (no) Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Novelty - (yes) RPBA 2020 - applicability and transitional provisions Form of decision - abridged form in respect of one or more issues				Application title Blade assembly
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T222715.20200129				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 345 KB)
T 0044/16 () of 28.1.2020
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/15 A61F 13/511 A61F 13/84 A61F 13/514	Application no. 11155400.2
Keywords Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features				Application title Disposable diapers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T004416.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 307 KB)
T 1524/16 (Functional antibodies/GENENCOR) of 29.1.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 29.1.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 16/00 C07K 16/46 C12N 15/63 C12N 15/64 C12N 15/80 C12N 1/15 A61K 39/395	Application no. 03719861.1
Keywords Main request and aux. requests 3 and 6 - inventive step (no) Aux. requests 1, 4, 5 and 7 to 10 - clarity (no) Aux.requests 1a, 2a, 4a, 5a and 7a to 10a - added subject-matter (yes)				Application title Production of functional antibodies in filamentous fungi
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T152416.20190129				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 560 KB)
T 1591/16 () of 22.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F02D 9/10 F02D 11/10	Application no. 04006975.9
Keywords Inventive step - (yes) Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal				Application title Motor driving type throttle apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T159116.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 285 KB)
T 1621/16 (Hand dishwashing/Procter&Gamble) of 14.10.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 14.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 17/00 C11D 3/33 C11D 3/36 C11D 1/83 C11D 1/94	Application no. 09163237.2
Keywords Amendments - mutliple selections from lists of converging alternatives Amendments - allowable (yes) Amendments - intermediate generalisation Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Liquid hand dishwashing detergent composition
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T162116.20191014				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 467 KB)
T 1672/16 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F24D 19/10 G05D 7/06 E03B 7/00 E03B 7/08 E03B 7/07	Application no. 08874783.7
Keywords Grounds for opposition - fresh ground for opposition (no) Inventive step Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes) Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Amendments - allowable (yes)				Application title FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T167216.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 525 KB)
T 1741/16 () of 19.12.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 19.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61J 3/10	Application no. 09786382.3
Keywords Novelty - main request, auxiliary requests 2 and 9 (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request 7 (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests 12 and 13 Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (no)				Application title TABLET PRODUCTION MODULE AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF TABLETS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T174116.20191219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 396 KB)
T 2093/16 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A47L 15/00 A47L 15/46	Application no. 04804765.8
Keywords Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Patentansprüche - Klarheit Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja)				Application title GESCHIRRSPÜLMASCHINE MIT ZWISCHENPUMPBETRIEB
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T209316.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 364 KB)
T 2133/16 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B21B 1/46	Application no. 08801838.7
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag Neuheit - (nein) Hilfsantrag 3 - mangelnde Substantiierung - zugelassen (nein) Hilfsanträge 4 und 5 - zugelassen (ja) Beschwerdeentscheidung - Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsanträge 4 und 5 (nein)				Application title KOMPAKTE FLEXIBLE CSP-ANLAGE FÜR ENDLOS-, SEMI-ENDLOS- UND BATCHBETRIEB
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T213316.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 348 KB)
T 2420/16 (Content access across devices/QUALCOMM) of 7.10.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 7.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 07871635.4
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title Preserving a user experience with content across multiple computing devices using location information
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T242016.20191007				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 286 KB)
T 2741/16 (Haptic feedback assisted text manipulation / Immersion) of 28.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 3/01 G06F 3/048 G06F 17/24	Application no. 11191507.0
Keywords Inventive step - obvious modification Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings Late-filed auxiliary requests - diverging versions of claims Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title Haptic feedback assisted text manipulation
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T274116.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 291 KB)
T 2746/16 () of 15.1.2020
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F03D 1/06 F03D 7/02 F03D 7/04 F03D 9/00 H02J 3/04 H02J 3/24 H02J 3/38 H02P 9/00 H02P 9/10	Application no. 10710316.0
Keywords Änderungen - Zwischenverallgemeinerung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUM BETREIBEN EINER WINDENERGIEANLAGE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T274616.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 394 KB)
T 0163/17 () of 27.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F16C 19/16 F16C 19/55 F16C 33/58 F16C 35/067 F16C 35/04	Application no. 08012058.7
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Claims - clarity Claims - main request (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Statement of grounds of appeal and the reply thereto Statement of grounds of appeal - party's complete case				Application title Assembling method of bearing unit
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T016317.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 332 KB)
T 0645/17 (Curable polymer separator/UC & UMD) of 28.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B01L 3/00 G01N 33/49	Application no. 14190681.8
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) -main and first to sixth auxiliary requests Amendments - allowable (yes) -seventh auxiliary request Claims - clarity (yes) -seventh auxiliary request Remittal to the examining division				Application title Curable polymer separator
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T064517.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 325 KB)
T 1169/17 (Process for making a detergent base composition/Procter & Gamble) of 21.11.2019
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 21.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 11/04 C11D 1/37	Application no. 11715377.5
Keywords Late-filed documents Late-filed document - not admissible Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Inventive step (yes) Inventive step - non-obvious alternative				Application title PROCESS FOR MAKING A DETERGENT BASE COMPOSITION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T116917.20191121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 459 KB)
T 1724/17 () of 5.2.2020
Online on 11.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 5.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A47J 31/40	Application no. 09827899.7
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - termination of appeal proceedings				Application title BEVERAGE MAKER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T172417.20200205				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 229 KB)
T 2199/14 () of 21.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 21.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 21/00 H01L 25/16 H01L 27/15 H01L 33/00 H01L 25/075	Application no. 03724539.6
Keywords Priority - identity of invention (no) Inventive step - (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T219914.20191121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 418 KB)
T 0702/15 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C09K 5/04 C10M 171/00	Application no. 04817445.2
Keywords Apportionment of costs - (no)				Application title FLUORINATED ALKENE REFRIGERANT COMPOSITIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T070215.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 260 KB)
T 1940/15 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 29/778 H01L 29/20 H01L 29/207 H01L 29/423	Application no. 06734062.0
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title GROUP III NITRIDE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FETS) CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING HIGH TEMPERATURE REVERSE BIAS TEST CONDITIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T194015.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 400 KB)
T 0026/16 () of 24.9.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 24.9.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E01H 4/02 F16P 3/14 G08G 1/16	Application no. 11153413.7
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Pistenpflegefahrzeug
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T002616.20190924				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 403 KB)
T 0261/16 () of 3.2.2020
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 3.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC F16F 1/38 B64D 41/00	Application no. 08843213.3
Keywords Inventive step - after amendment Inventive step - (yes)				Application title SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT AUXILIARY POWER UNIT WITH ELASTOMERIC MEMBER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T026116.20200203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 289 KB)
T 0302/16 () of 17.10.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 17.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F28G 1/16	Application no. 02009244.1
Keywords Zulassung eines neuen Einspruchsgrunds - (nein) Zulassung spät vorgebrachter Einwände - (nein) Zulassung einer spät vorgebrachten offenkundigen Vorbenutzung - (nein) Zulassung spät eingereichter Beweismittel - (nein) Änderungen der Anmeldung Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Online-Kesselreinigung von Abfallverbrennungsanlagen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T030216.20191017				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 550 KB)
T 0361/16 () of 29.1.2020
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F24H 3/04 F24H 9/18 H05B 3/24 B60H 1/22	Application no. 09012038.7
Keywords Erlöschen des Patents in allen benannten Vertragsstaaten - Beendigung des Beschwerdeverfahrens				Application title Elektrische Heizvorrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T036116.20200129				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 227 KB)
T 0414/16 () of 12.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A45D 27/46 B26B 19/38	Application no. 04710801.4
Keywords Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - (ja) Spät eingereichter Antrag - zugelassen (ja) Patentansprüche - Klarheit nach Änderung (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title SYSTEM AUS EINEM ELEKTRISCHEN TROCKENRASIERAPPARAT UND EINEM DIESEM ZU GEORDNETEN ELEKTRISCHEN REINIGUNGSGERÄT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T041416.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 426 KB)
T 0471/16 () of 3.9.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 3.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC E02F 3/92 E02F 9/28	Application no. 10728679.1
Keywords Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title CUTTER HEAD FOR DREDGING GROUND, CUTTER SUCTION DREDGER PROVIDED WITH SUCH A CUTTER HEAD AND USE OF THE CUTTER HEAD FOR DREDGING GROUND
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T047116.20190903				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 412 KB)
T 1161/16 (COBALT-NICKEL-CHROMIUM-MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS/ATI) of 18.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 19/00	Application no. 04752617.3
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Novelty - auxiliary request (yes) Novelty - availability to the public Novelty - multiple selection Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - unexpected improvement shown Late-filed document - justification for late filing (no) Late-filed document - admitted (no)				Application title COBALT-NICKEL-CHROMIUM-MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS WITH REDUCED LEVEL OF TITANIUM NITRIDE INCLUSIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T116116.20191118				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 381 KB)
T 1366/16 () of 25.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E06B 9/15	Application no. 12187784.9
Keywords Neuheit				Application title Rollladen mit einer Mehrzahl parallel angeordneter und gelenkig verbundener Rollladenstäbe aus einwandigem, dünnem Metallblech
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T136616.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 259 KB)
T 1690/16 () of 5.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 5.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B21B 45/02	Application no. 06832688.3
Keywords Late-filed evidence - submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed evidence - submitted during oral proceedings Late-filed evidence - admitted (no) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title COOLING APPARATUS FOR HOT ROLLED STEEL BAND AND METHOD OF COOLING THE STEEL BAND
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T169016.20191105				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 405 KB)
T 2734/16 (Zulassung neuer Angriffslinie - Verspätetes Einreichen … of 15.10.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E01C 23/088 E01C 19/00	Application no. 08157838.7
Keywords Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Änderung Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Verspätetes Vorbringen - Rechtfertigung der Verspätung (ja) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein)				Application title Selbstfahrende Großfräse
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T273416.20191015				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 599 KB)
T 0598/17 (Continuous annealing/TATA) of 22.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C21D 1/26 C21D 9/46 C21D 9/52 C21D 6/00 C22C 38/04	Application no. 11703586.5
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)				Application title PROCESS FOR THE HEAT TREATMENT OF METAL STRIP MATERIAL, AND STRIP MATERIAL PRODUCED IN THAT WAY
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T059817.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 297 KB)
T 2643/17 () of 13.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 13.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F28D 9/00 F28F 3/04	Application no. 11003326.3
Keywords Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes) Reimbursement of appeal fee - substantial procedural violation (no)				Application title Heat exchanger
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T264317.20191113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 263 KB)
T 0087/18 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B62L 3/02 B60T 7/10 B60T 11/16	Application no. 07001857.7
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary requests (no) Late-filed facts - admitted (yes)				Application title Bicycle hydraulic brake actuation device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T008718.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 333 KB)
T 1640/19 () of 22.11.2019
Online on 10.02.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B21H 1/06	Application no. 12735873.7
Keywords Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - fehlende Beschwerdebegründung				Application title WALZE FÜR EIN RINGWALZWERK
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T164019.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 226 KB)
T 2184/14 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC B65D 35/10 B65D 47/08	Application no. 08017038.4
Keywords Recevabilité du recours - (oui) Procédure orale - en l'absence des requérantes 2 et 4 et de l'intimée Requête principale et requête subsidiaire 2 produites tardivement - recevables (non) Activité inventive - requête subsidiaire 1 (non)				Application title Tubes souples en matière plastique et leur procédé de fabrication
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T218414.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 439 KB)
T 1405/15 () of 3.2.2020
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 3.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G08G 1/095	Application no. 05852940.5
Keywords Inventive step - all requests (no)				Application title Power supply for LED signal
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T140515.20200203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 356 KB)
T 1604/15 () of 25.11.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 41/34	Application no. 08701348.8
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title A TAMPER EVIDENT CLOSURE CAP AND A COMBINATION OF THE CAP AND A CONTAINER NECK
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T160415.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 287 KB)
T 0032/16 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/00 A61F 13/02	Application no. 10724890.8
Keywords Late-filed auxiliary request - admitted (yes) - special circumstances of the case				Application title HYDROGEL WOUND DRESSING FOR USE WITH SUCTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T003216.20200114				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 426 KB)
T 0243/16 () of 4.2.2020
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 4.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 77/04	Application no. 09398009.2
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Pallet container for liquids
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T024316.20200204				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 365 KB)
T 1166/16 (LYOPHILIZED RECOMBINANT VWF FORMULATIONS/Baxalta Incorporated and … of 3.12.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/19 A61K 38/36 A61K 9/08 A61K 47/12 A61K 47/18 A61K 47/26 A61K 48/00 A61K 38/16	Application no. 09740822.3
Keywords Main request - Inventive step (No) Auxiliary request - Admission into the proceedings (No)				Application title LYOPHILIZED RECOMBINANT VWF FORMULATIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T116616.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 365 KB)
T 1714/16 (Procter&Gamble/Aminosilicones) of 27.11.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/37 C11D 1/02 C11D 1/37 C11D 1/65 A61K 8/81 A61K 8/895 A61Q 5/00 A61Q 19/00 C11D 1/88 C11D 1/94 C11D 3/22 C11D 11/00 C11D 17/00	Application no. 10731679.6
Keywords Inventive step - reformulation of the technical problem Inventive step - obvious modification Amendments - allowable (yes)				Application title AMINOSILICONE CONTAINING DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T171416.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 374 KB)
T 1720/16 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G07F 7/02 B60S 5/02 B67D 5/14 G06F 3/033 G07F 13/02	Application no. 03022730.0
Keywords Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no) Remittal to the department of first instance - (no) Claims - clarity (no)				Application title Secure controller of outdoor payment terminals in compliance with EMV specifications
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T172016.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 301 KB)
T 1520/17 () of 12.11.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 27/26 A61L 27/52 A61L 27/58 C08L 5/08 C08B 37/00	Application no. 10750046.4
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Inventive step - main request, auxiliary requests 1 to 3 Amendment of the appellant's case. Admitted (no)				Application title VISCOELASTIC GELS AS NOVEL FILLERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T152017.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 340 KB)
T 1690/17 () of 22.11.2019
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 22.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 75/58 B65D 77/00	Application no. 10181886.2
Keywords Novelty - after amendment Inventive step - after amendment				Application title Resealable Food Container
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T169017.20191122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 250 KB)
T 1612/19 () of 13.1.2020
Online on 07.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 13.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C21D 1/25 C21D 8/02 C21D 8/04	Application no. 11743330.0
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HOT-ROLLED STEEL PRODUCT, AND A HOT-ROLLED STEEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T161219.20200113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 224 KB)
T 0083/15 () of 15.10.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 11/00	Application no. 07024538.6
Keywords Novelty - (no) Inventive step - (no)				Application title Pigment dispersion, ink composition, inkset, and recording device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T008315.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 444 KB)
T 0396/15 () of 18.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 18.12.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC B24D 13/08	Application no. 07731681.8
Keywords Faits produits tardivement - recevable (oui) Activité inventive - (non)				Application title MEULE D'EBARBAGE FINE, UTILISATION DE CETTE MEULE ET PROCEDE POUR LA FABRIQUER.
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T039615.20191218				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 506 KB)
T 1279/15 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 85/804 A47J 31/36	Application no. 09796130.4
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title CAPSULE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF A BEVERAGE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A CAPSULE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T127915.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 436 KB)
T 1591/15 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B24B 13/005 B29D 11/00 C08F 290/08 C09D 175/16 C09J 151/00	Application no. 07013158.6
Keywords Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Method for blocking a lens blank, adhesive composition and use of the latter in lens blocking
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T159115.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 372 KB)
T 1937/15 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G01G 11/00	Application no. 10015400.4
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Spät vorgebrachte Argumente - zugelassen (ja)				Application title Wägevorrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T193715.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 331 KB)
T 0690/16 () of 15.10.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 11/00	Application no. 11001190.5
Keywords -				Application title Pigment dispersion, ink composition, inkset, and recording device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T069016.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 393 KB)
T 1029/16 (Content metadata processing/SONY) of 27.9.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 27.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 03778956.7
Keywords Inventive step - main, first and second auxiliary requests (no) Amendments - added subject-matter Amendments - third auxiliary request (no) Claims - clarity Claims - third auxiliary request (yes) Substantial procedural violation - appealed decision sufficiently reasoned (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (yes) Remittal to department of first instance - (yes)				Application title Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T102916.20190927				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 490 KB)
T 1100/16 (Procédé d'oxydation/Primetals) of 12.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC C21D 1/76 C21D 9/48 C21D 9/52 C21D 9/56 C23C 2/02 C23C 2/40 F27B 9/06 C21D 9/00	Application no. 08829848.4
Keywords Invention brevetable - (oui)				Application title PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF D'OXYDATION/REDUCTION CONTROLEE DE LA SURFACE D'UNE BANDE D'ACIER EN DEFILEMENT CONTINU DANS UN FOUR A TUBES RADIANTS EN VUE DE SA GALVANISATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T110016.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 261 KB)
T 1238/16 () of 16.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 16.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A47J 31/44	Application no. 05826001.9
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Late-filed request - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FOAMED AND STEAMED MILK FROM MILK CONCENTRATE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T123816.20191216				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 286 KB)
T 1455/16 (Image search to obtain shooting spot/RAKUTEN) of 20.11.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 20.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 11775122.2
Keywords Inventive step - all requests (no)				Application title Information providing device, method of providing information, information providing processing program, and recording medium on which an information providing processing program is recorded
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T145516.20191120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 401 KB)
T 1754/16 () of 6.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F04B 43/00 F04B 49/06	Application no. 10001643.5
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein) Patentansprüche - Klarheit Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag (nein) Patentansprüche - Stützung durch die Beschreibung (ja) Änderungen - Zwischenverallgemeinerung Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Application title Dosierpumpenaggregat sowie Verfahren zur Steuerung eines Dosierpumpenaggregates
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T175416.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 429 KB)
T 2385/16 (Encoding and decoding apparatus/NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE … of 8.11.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30 G06F 12/00 G06F 5/00 G06F 17/21	Application no. 07860476.6
Keywords Inventive step - main request and first auxiliary request (no) Late-filed second auxiliary request - admitted (no)				Application title Encoding and decoding apparatus, method, and program, and recording medium
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T238516.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 383 KB)
T 2628/16 () of 13.12.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 13.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A22C 11/12 A22C 15/00 B65H 75/44	Application no. 10194964.2
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Clip supply
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T262816.20191213				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 392 KB)
T 0696/17 () of 3.2.2020
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 3.2.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G02F 1/1333 G02F 1/13357	Application no. 14171255.4
Keywords Subject-matter extending beyond the earlier application as filed (no, amended claims) Novelty and inventive step (yes)				Application title Liquid crystal display apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T069617.20200203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 274 KB)
T 0880/17 () of 15.10.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09D 11/00	Application no. 10016140.5
Keywords Novelty - (no) Inventive step - (no)				Application title Pigment dispersion, ink composition, inkset, and recording device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T088017.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 482 KB)
T 1248/17 (Water-absorbing agent / NIPPON SHOKUBAI) of 7.11.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 20/26 G01N 5/00 A61L 15/60 A61F 13/15 C08F 20/00	Application no. 05108718.7
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes) Amendments - clarity (no) Amendments - all requests				Application title Water-absorbing agent, its production process and use
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T124817.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 1633/17 () of 20.11.2019
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 20.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60T 7/04 B60T 15/14	Application no. 11794460.3
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)				Application title BETRIEBSBREMSVENTIL MIT WENIGSTENS EINEM UNMITTELBAR DURCH EINEN RELAISKOLBEN BETÄTIGBAREN ELEKTRISCHEN SCHALTER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T163317.20191120				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 382 KB)
T 1879/17 () of 9.1.2020
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01C 23/00 B60R 1/00	Application no. 05851654.3
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Amendments - main request Claims - clarity (no) Claims - first auxiliary request Right to be heard - substantial procedural violation (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes)				Application title IMPROVED IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CONTROL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T187917.20200109				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 485 KB)
T 1045/18 () of 21.1.2020
Online on 06.02.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 21.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC A47L 11/20 A47L 11/40 A47L 11/30	Application no. 10766222.3
Keywords Änderungen der Anmeldung Änderungen - Fehlerhafte Ausübung des Ermessens der Prüfungsabteilung Rechtliches Gehör - Gelegenheit zur Stellungnahme (ja) Zurückverweisung an die Prüfungsabteilung				Application title HANDGEFÜHRTES BODENBEARBEITUNGSGERÄT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T104518.20200121				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 338 KB)
T 0547/14 (Verfahren zur Vorhersage von Schimmelpilzbildung/FRAUNHOFER) of 29.1.2020
Online on 05.02.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 29.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G06F 17/60	Application no. 02794505.4
Keywords Patentierbare Erfindung - "Bestimmung physikalischer Grössen zur Vorhersage von Schimmelpilzbildung" (Verfahren für gedankliche Tätigkeiten Patentierbare Erfindung - nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - "Bestimmung physikalischer Grössen zur Vorhersage von Schimmelpilzbildung" (nicht-technisch oder allgemeines Fachwissen Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - technische und nicht-technische Merkmale Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Unterschiedsmerkmale sind nicht notorisch Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR VORHERSAGE VON SCHIMMELPILZBILDUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T054714.20200129				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 366 KB)
T 1023/15 () of 9.7.2019
Online on 05.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 9.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B41J 11/00	Application no. 09290092.7
Keywords Admissibility of the appellant's requests (no)				Application title Ultraviolet curing-type inkjet printer and printing method used in Ultraviolet curing-type inkjet printer
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T102315.20190709				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 301 KB)
T 2003/15 () of 25.7.2019
Online on 05.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 25.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B29D 99/00 B64C 1/06 B64C 1/12 B64C 1/00 B61D 17/04 B63B 3/28 B63B 3/36 B64C 3/26 B64C 3/18	Application no. 05788068.4
Keywords Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes)				Application title Structural panels for use in aircraft fuselages and other structures
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T200315.20190725				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 2 MB)
T 1217/16 () of 18.9.2019
Online on 05.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.9.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B61C 17/04 B60K 37/00	Application no. 09090012.7
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - (ja) Beweisaufnahme - Zeugenvernehmung				Application title Führerstand eines spurgebundenen Fahrzeuges, Insbesondere eines Schienenfahrzeugs
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T121716.20190918				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 285 KB)
T 1672/17 () of 11.9.2019
Online on 05.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 11.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B42D 25/00	Application no. 13152894.5
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure (yes: main request, auxiliary requests 1 to 3) Added matter (yes: auxiliary requests 1, 3, 5) Remittal to the depart of first instance (yes)				Application title Optically variable security device and method
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T167217.20190911				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 406 KB)
T 1447/15 (Method for designing an addendum/AUTOFORM) of 14.11.2019
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G05B 19/4099	Application no. 01927551.0
Keywords Added subject-matter (no) Extension of protection (no)				Application title METHOD FOR THE DESIGNING OF TOOLS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T144715.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 324 KB)
T 1931/15 (Transdermales therapeutisches System / LTS LOHMANN) of 5.12.2019
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 5.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61K 9/70 A61P 5/24 A61P 15/08 A61P 15/12 A61P 5/18	Application no. 02762444.4
Keywords Hauptantrag - eingereicht mit Beschwerdebegründung - zugelassen (ja) Hauptantrag - Neuheit - (nein)				Application title TRANSDERMALES THERAPEUTISCHES SYSTEM AUF DER BASIS VON POLYACRYLAT-HAFTKLEBERN OHNE FUNKTIONELLE GRUPPEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T193115.20191205				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 314 KB)
T 0117/16 () of 7.11.2019
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B22D 11/128	Application no. 06755231.5
Keywords Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR REGELUNG EINES ANSTELLSEGMENTES IN EINER STRANGGIEßANLAGE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T011716.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 339 KB)
T 0634/16 () of 10.1.2020
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language FR	IPC A41B 11/12 A61F 13/08	Application no. 09745991.1
Keywords Procédure orale - présentation orale par un assistant (non) Motifs d'opposition - exposé insuffisant (oui) Requêtes subsidiaires - modification des moyens invoqués aprés dépôt des motifs de recours - recevables de prime abord (non)				Application title BANDE AUTO-FIXANTE DE MAINTIEN ET DE CONTENTION NOTAMMENT POUR BAS DE CONTENTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T063416.20200110				Distribution C	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 434 KB)
T 1874/16 () of 2.10.2019
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 2.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60T 17/00	Application no. 01974254.3
Keywords Neuheit - (nein) Neuheit - Hauptantrag, Hilfsantrag 1 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 2 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 3 Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja)				Application title DRUCKLUFTAUFBEREITUNGSEINRICHTUNG FÜR KRAFTFAHRZEUGE UND VERFAHREN ZUR REGENERATION DES TROCKNUNGSMITTELS EINES LUFTTROCKNERS EINER LUFTDRUCKVERSORGUNGSANLAGE EINES KRAFTFAHRZEUGS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T187416.20191002				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 355 KB)
T 2500/16 () of 16.1.2020
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F01P 5/12 F16D 35/02	Application no. 05003510.4
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Hauptantrag (nein) Ausreichende Offenbarung - Hilfsanträge 1 bis 9 (nein)				Application title Kühlmittelpumpe für ein Kraftfahrzeug, mit regelbarem Antrieb
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T250016.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 351 KB)
T 0217/17 (Ester liquide ramifié/ L'OREAL) of 20.1.2020
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language FR	IPC A61K 8/38 A61K 8/19 A61K 8/23 A61K 8/37	Application no. 08100319.6
Keywords Motifs d'opposition - exposé insuffisant (non) Activité inventive - (oui)				Application title Composition pour la décoloration des cheveux comprenant un ester liquide ramifié non volatile d'acide carboxylique à point de solidification inférieur à 4°c
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T021717.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 305 KB)
T 1826/17 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC B60T 17/00 B60T 15/04	Application no. 06010659.8
Keywords Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - Verletzung des rechtlichen Gehörs (nein) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung Änderungen - Hilfsantrag 1 (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 1 (ja)				Application title Druckluftversorgungseinrichtung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T182617.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 482 KB)
T 2664/17 (Oral Care Product / COLGATE-PALMOLIVE) of 23.1.2020
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 8/03 A61K 8/34 A61K 8/36 A61K 8/368 A61K 8/49 A61Q 11/00	Application no. 10779423.2
Keywords Exceptions to patentability - method for treatment by therapy Amendments - allowable (no)				Application title ORAL CARE PRODUCT AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T266417.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 267 KB)
T 0528/18 (Method for producing a stabilised antibody/CHUGAI) of 12.7.2019
Online on 04.02.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 12.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07K 14/705 C07K 16/00 C07K 1/107 C07K 16/36	Application no. 02792048.7
Keywords Main request, first to fifth auxiliary request: sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title Method of stabilizing protein
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T052818.20190712				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 359 KB)
T 0128/15 () of 9.12.2019
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 9.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B31B 1/90 B31B 19/90 B65B 61/06 B65B 61/18 B65B 61/20	Application no. 09000746.9
Keywords Spät eingereichte Tatsachen - zugelassen (nein) Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Tabak-Beuteln
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T012815.20191209				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 431 KB)
T 1623/15 () of 14.1.2020
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC G07C 5/08 G08G 1/16	Application no. 08774004.9
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - (nein)				Application title FAHRZEUGSTEUERSYSTEM FÜR EINEN KRAFTWAGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T162315.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 329 KB)
T 1798/16 () of 30.7.2019
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 30.7.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC B29C 57/04 B21D 41/02	Application no. 11160491.4
Keywords Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention (non)				Application title Dispositif d'outil à expansion pour pince ou machine à réaliser des emboîtures aux extrémités de tuyaux en matière plastique ou composite
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T179816.20190730				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 351 KB)
T 2363/16 (URL based email filtering/MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING) of 6.12.2019
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 04103338.2
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title URL based filtering of electronic communications and web pages
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T236316.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 295 KB)
T 0484/17 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B23K 26/12 B23K 26/16 B23K 26/36 B23K 26/06	Application no. 10171819.5
Keywords Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Gas-assisted laser ablation
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T048417.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 378 KB)
T 1773/19 () of 28.1.2020
Online on 03.02.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 28.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 20/00 G06Q 30/00	Application no. 10702844.1
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title PAYMENT SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T177319.20200128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 222 KB)

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T 0713/15 (Vasculitis/CHUGAI) of 2.10.2019
Online on 31.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 2.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 45/00 A61K 39/395 A61P 29/00 A61P 9/00	Application no. 04807818.2
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes) Late-filed auxiliary request 1 - admitted (no)				Application title Remedy for vasculitis
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T071315.20191002				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 343 KB)
T 1754/15 (Storage Virtualisation System/INFORTREND) of 23.1.2020
Online on 31.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 23.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 3/06 G06F 11/20	Application no. 06121790.7
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main request (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Novelty - main request (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance				Application title Pool spares for data storage virtualization subsystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T175415.20200123				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 278 KB)
T 1043/16 () of 2.12.2019
Online on 31.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 2.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/56 A61F 13/58	Application no. 04814528.8
Keywords Inventive step - main request (no)				Application title GECKO-LIKE FASTENERS FOR DISPOSABLE ARTICLES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T104316.20191202				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 264 KB)
T 2492/13 (Personalisieren von Chipkarten / Giesecke+Devrient) of 22.10.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G06K 17/00	Application no. 01902418.1
Keywords Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Patentansprüche - Klarheit Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag 1 (nein) Änderungen Hilfsanträge 1 bis 5 Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM PERSONALISIEREN VON CHIPKARTEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T249213.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 385 KB)
T 0596/15 (DSRNA-mediated regulation/SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS) of 24.1.2020
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 24.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 15/63	Application no. 04030122.8
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - termination of appeal proceedings				Application title DSRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression in plants
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T059615.20200124				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 243 KB)
T 1385/15 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61L 2/18 A61B 19/00 C11D 3/04 C11D 3/06 C11D 3/30 B08B 3/08	Application no. 06724082.0
Keywords Neuheit einer zweiten (bzw. weiteren) nicht medizinischen Verwendung Neuheit - Kombination von Dokumenten				Application title MASCHINELLE DESINFEKTION VON GEGENSTÄNDEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T138515.20191203				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 322 KB)
T 1907/15 (Enhancing continuous packet connectivity/INNOVATIVE SONIC) of 9.1.2020
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H04W 76/04 H04L 1/18	Application no. 07023252.5
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (yes): meaning of "when" is context-dependent				Application title Method of enhancing continuous packet connectivity in a wireless communications system and related apparatus
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T190715.20200109				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306 KB)
T 0055/16 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 81/26 B29C 45/16 B01J 20/28 C08J 9/26 F26B 21/08	Application no. 99924541.8
Keywords Withdrawal of approval of any text for maintainance of the patent - Revocation of the patent				Application title MODIFIED POLYMERS HAVING CONTROLLED TRANSMISSION RATES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T005516.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 241 KB)
T 0548/16 (Sustained analgesia with buprenorphine / EURO-CELTIQUE) of 17.1.2020
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61F 13/00 A61K 31/485 A61K 9/70 A61P 25/04	Application no. 06118876.9
Keywords Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor				Application title Sustained analgesia achieved with transdermal delivery of buprenorphine
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T054816.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 238 KB)
T 0840/16 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC A23L 1/29 A23L 1/30 A23L 1/305	Application no. 09745999.4
Keywords Extension de l'objet revendiqué: non (revendications 9 à 11) Suffisance de description: oui Nouveauté: oui Activité inventive: oui				Application title ALIMENT INFANTILE À BASE DE MATIÈRE GRASSE D'ORIGINE LAITIÈRE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T084016.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 423 KB)
T 1781/16 (Liver tissue/UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL) of 26.6.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 26.6.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 5/071 C12N 5/074	Application no. 01903136.8
Keywords Right to be heard - violation (no) Remittal to the department of first instance (no) Main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 5 - added subject matter (yes)				Application title Liver tissue source
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T178116.20190626				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 397 KB)
T 2573/16 (OLAP-cube specification/ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES) of 6.11.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 6.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 10008570.3
Keywords Inventive step - main request and first and third auxiliary requests (no) Late-filed request - second auxiliary request (not admitted)				Application title Flexible cube data warehousing
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T257316.20191106				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 412 KB)
T 2111/17 (Filtermodul/Mann + Hummel) of 8.11.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B01D 46/00 B01D 46/10 B01D 46/52	Application no. 07857207.0
Keywords Spät eingereichter Antrag - Rechtfertigung für späte Vorlage (ja) Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - Rechtfertigung für späte Vorlage (nein) Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Änderungen - Berichtigung von Mängeln (ja) Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Lösung				Application title FILTERMODUL MIT EINEM KOMPRESSIBLEN UND SELBSTAUSDEHNENDEN FILTERELEMENT, HALTERUNG UND VERFAHREN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T211117.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 353 KB)
T 0961/18 (Positionsmesseinrichtung II/HEIDENHAIN) of 10.7.2019
Online on 30.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 10.7.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H03M 1/10 G01D 5/244 G01D 18/00	Application no. 05010374.6
Keywords Bindungswirkung einer ersten Entscheidung der Beschwerdekammer - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Positionsmesseinrichtung und Verfahren zur Positionsmessung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T096118.20190710				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 432 KB)
T 2470/16 () of 17.1.2020
Online on 29.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/4412 A61P 11/00	Application no. 11001414.9
Keywords Agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor				Application title Pirfenidone treatment for patients with atypical liver function
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T247016.20200117				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 222 KB)
T 1455/17 (Winding structure/BALDWIN) of 6.11.2019
Online on 29.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 6.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B01D 29/48	Application no. 07865206.2
Keywords Amendments - broadening of claim (no) Amendments - allowable (yes) Claims - clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title A FILTER ELEMENT WITH A WINDING STRUCTURE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T145517.20191106				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 355 KB)
T 0349/15 () of 12.11.2019
Online on 28.01.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 295/08 A61K 31/495 A61P 25/24 A61P 25/28 A61P 25/18 A61P 25/22 A61P 25/32 A61P 25/34 A61P 25/36	Application no. 07764495.3
Keywords -				Application title 1-[2-(2,4-DIMETHYLPHENYLSULFANYL)-PHENYL]PIPERAZINE AS A COMPOUND WITH COMBINED SEROTONIN REUPTAKE, 5-HT3 AND 5-HT1A ACTIVITY FOR THE TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T034915.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 320 KB)
T 1801/15 () of 28.11.2019
Online on 28.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 28.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 161/24	Application no. 06799568.8
Keywords Late-filed technical evidence (admitted) Inventive step (no) Inventive step - none of the requests				Application title LOW EMISSION ADHESIVE SYSTEM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T180115.20191128				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 516 KB)
T 0795/16 (Carrier system/KOREA INSTITUTE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) of 9.12.2019
Online on 28.01.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 9.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07H 21/00 C12N 15/87	Application no. 10775037.4
Keywords Main request and auxiliary request - admission (yes) Main request and auxiliary request - added-subject matter (yes)				Application title METHOD FOR POLYMERIZING A SMALL OLIGONUCLEOTIDE, AND USE OF A HIGH-MOLECULAR OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PREPARED BY THE POLYMERIZATION METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T079516.20191209				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 317 KB)
T 1728/16 (Solid pharmaceutical dosage form comprising ritonavir / ABBOTT) of 15.11.2019
Online on 28.01.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 15.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 9/14 A61K 9/20 A61K 31/425	Application no. 04816820.7
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM COMPRISING RITONAVIR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T172816.20191115				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 403 KB)
T 2514/16 () of 13.12.2019
Online on 28.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 13.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C08F 8/00 C08J 3/24 C08F 8/42	Application no. 10710301.2
Keywords Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus Änderungen - Hauptantrag (nein) Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG OBERFLÄCHENNACHVERNETZTER WASSERABSORBIERENDER POLYMERPARTIKEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T251416.20191213				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 451 KB)
T 2069/15 () of 10.12.2019
Online on 27.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 10.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B66B 5/02 B66B 13/22 B66B 5/00	Application no. 10008399.7
Keywords Zulässigkeit der Beschwerde - (ja) Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Antrag eindeutig gewährbar (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Elektronisches Sicherheitsystem für einen Aufzug
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T206915.20191210				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 384 KB)
T 1114/17 () of 22.1.2020
Online on 27.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 22.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B23Q 16/10 G01B 11/00 G01B 11/24 G01S 17/02	Application no. 13888136.2
Keywords Inventive step - non-obvious alternative Inventive step - ex post facto analysis				Application title LASER SENSOR WITH A BUILT-IN ROTARY MECHANISM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T111417.20200122				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 310 KB)
T 1221/14 (Clostridial assays/ALLERGAN) of 9.5.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 9.5.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/573 G01N 33/53 G01N 33/58 G01N 33/60 C07K 1/00 C07K 5/00 C07K 7/00 C07K 14/00 C07K 16/00 C07K 17/00 C08H 1/00 A61K 38/04	Application no. 02807745.1
Keywords Late-filed requests, filed with statement of grounds of appeal Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Amendments - allowable (main request, first and second auxiliary requests Amendments - no; third auxiliary request Amendments - yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the opposition division (yes)				Application title FRET PROTEASE ASSAYS FOR CLOSTRIDIAL TOXINS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T122114.20190509				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 424 KB)
T 1329/14 () of 18.12.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 18.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61B3/18 A61B3/10 A61B3/107	Application no. 99963480.1
Keywords Patentansprüche - Klarheit (nein)				Application title ANORDNUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR BERÜHRUNGSLOSEN MESSUNG DER ACHSLÄNGE UND/ODER DER HORNHAUTKRÜMMUNG UND/ODER DER VORDERKAMMERTIEFE DES AUGES, VORZUGSWEISE ZUR IOL-BERECHNUNG
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T132914.20191218				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 238 KB)
T 1398/14 (Detection of therapeutic antibody/HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE) of 18.6.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 18.6.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/68	Application no. 05824356.9
Keywords Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title DETECTION OF A THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T139814.20190618				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 347 KB)
T 1491/14 (Vortioxetine/LUNDBECK) of 30.7.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 30.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/495 A61P 25/00	Application no. 08850935.1
Keywords Novelty - main request (yes) Novelty - new group of patients Inventive step - auxiliary request 1 (yes) Inventive step - no one-way-street situation Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 1 (yes)				Application title THERAPEUTIC USES OF COMPOUNDS HAVING COMBINED SERT, 5-HT3 AND 5-HT1A ACTIVITY
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T149114.20190730				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 517 KB)
T 1785/14 (System and method for predicting physiological state of animal/LATTEC … of 7.8.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 7.8.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/04 G01N 21/35 A01J 5/013 G05B 13/04 G05B 17/02 G05B 23/02	Application no. 03787739.6
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OBSERVING AND PREDICTING PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF AN ANIMAL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T178514.20190807				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 382 KB)
T 2332/14 (Diagnosis and treatment of epithelial-derived cancers/UCB PHARMA) of 8.1.2020
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 33/574	Application no. 02779771.1
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - termination of appeal proceedings				Application title METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF EPITHELIAL-DERIVED CANCERS, SUCH AS COLORECTAL CANCERS AND KIDNEY CANCERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T233214.20200108				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 231 KB)
T 0572/15 (Locating web-based social network members/FACEBOOK) of 11.12.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L29/08	Application no. 07752069.0
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING WEB-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK MEMBERS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T057215.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 1249/15 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC G02F1/35 H04L9/08	Application no. 11706294.3
Keywords Requêtes produites tardivement - requêtes clairement admissible (non) Quatrième requête subsidiaire produite tardivement - requête clairement admissible (oui)				Application title SOURCE DE PAIRES DE PHOTONS INTRIQUÉS EN POLARISATION ET SON PROCÉDÉ DE FABRICATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T124915.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 545 KB)
T 0109/16 (Fentanyl for nasal administration/TAKEDA) of 8.10.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 8.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/435 A61P 25/04	Application no. 05078002.2
Keywords Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Fentanyl salt composition for nasal administration
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T010916.20191008				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 329 KB)
T 0182/16 () of 17.10.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.01	Decision date 17.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K 31/215 A61K 31/22 A61P 3/04	Application no. 10193040.2
Keywords Late-filed requests Late-filed request - justification for late filing (no) Novelty - (no) Requests filed pursuant to Article 12 RPBA - not held inadmissible				Application title Metabolic imprinting effects of structured lipids
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T018216.20191017				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 419 KB)
T 0217/16 () of 20.1.2020
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H02M1/42	Application no. 08854373.1
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title Control system and method for controlling a bridgeless boost converter
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T021716.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 393 KB)
T 0946/16 () of 23.10.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 23.10.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC C08F210/02 C08F218/00 C08L23/08 C08L35/00 C09J123/08 C09J135/00 C08J5/18	Application no. 09768173.8
Keywords Requête principale - motivation produite tardivement - requête non admise dans la procédure Requête subsidiaire produite tardivement - argument que celle-ci n'est pas de prime abord conforme aux dispositions de la règle 80 CBE non convaincant - admise dans la procédure Requête subsidiaire - défaut d'activité inventive (oui) - amélioration (non retenue) - modifications évidentes Requêtes subsidiaires additionnelles tardives qui nécessiteraient un report de la procédure orale - non admises dans la procédure				Application title FABRICATION DE COPOLYMERES ETHYLENE/ESTER VINYLIQUE D'ACIDE CARBOXYLIQUE A PARTIR DE MATIERES RENOUVELABLES, COPOLYMERES OBTENUS ET UTILISATIONS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T094616.20191023				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 608 KB)
T 1744/16 (Silk Fibroin Hydrogels/ALLERGAN) of 6.5.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 6.5.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K38/17 A61L27/52 A61L27/22 A61K9/06 A61K47/42	Application no. 10726700.7
Keywords Substantial procedural violation - (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)				Application title Silk Fibroin Hydrogels and uses thereof
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T174416.20190506				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 486 KB)
T 2695/16 () of 13.11.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 13.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L27/16 C08J3/24 C08K5/00	Application no. 02011786.7
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes)				Application title Curable Fluoroelastomers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T269516.20191113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 295 KB)
T 0094/17 (Dental-care-related device/PLANMECA) of 2.12.2019
Online on 24.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 2.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F17/30 G06Q10/00	Application no. 05730928.8
Keywords Inventive step - both requests (no)				Application title Data arrangement, method, dental-care-related device and software product for dental-care quality assurance
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T009417.20191202				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 330 KB)
T 0242/13 (Tamper-resistant RFID label / Mikoh) of 6.9.2019
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 6.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01Q 1/36 B65D 5/42 G06K 19/073 G06K 19/077 G08B 13/24	Application no. 01926396.1
Keywords Novelty - (no)				Application title A TAMPER INDICATING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION LABEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T024213.20190906				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 308 KB)
T 1651/14 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61F 13/02 A61F 13/00 A61F 5/445	Application no. 03727455.2
Keywords Grundlage der Entscheidung - Rücknahme der Zustimmung zur vorgelegten oder gebilligten Fassung des Patents Grundlage der Entscheidung - Widerruf des Patents				Application title ABSORPTIONSKÖRPER ZUM ANSCHLUSS AN DEN MENSCHLICHEN KÖRPER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T165114.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 242 KB)
T 1966/16 (HDAC Modulators / GLAXOSMITHKLINE) of 20.1.2020
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.3.07	Decision date 20.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A61K47/48	Application no. 09714148.5
Keywords Inventive step - (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - special reasons for remitting the case				Application title INTRACELLULAR ENZYME AND RECEPTOR MODULATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T196616.20200120				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 346 KB)
T 2185/16 (Displaying multimedia contents/SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS) of 18.11.2019
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 07100788.4
Keywords Inventive step - all requests (no)				Application title Apparatus and method for displaying multimedia contents
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T218516.20191118				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 409 KB)
T 1918/17 () of 9.1.2020
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B60W40/09 B60W50/14 G07C5/08 G07C5/00 B60R16/023	Application no. 12716774.0
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no) Claims - clarity (yes)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-VEHICLE OPERATOR TRAINING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T191817.20200109				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 254 KB)
T 2769/17 () of 6.12.2019
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B60R 19/18 B60R 19/02	Application no. 12700928.0
Keywords Added subject-matter (no) Insufficiency of disclosure (no) Novelty - (yes) Late-filed inventive step objections - admitted (no)				Application title TUBULAR BEAM OF AN AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURE HAVING AN IMPROVED IMPACT BEHAVIOR
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T276917.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 342 KB)
T 0128/18 () of 20.9.2019
Online on 23.01.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 20.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC E21B19/10	Application no. 02782021.6
Keywords -				Application title A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR PREVENTING PIPESKIDDING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T012818.20190920				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 328 KB)
T 1968/14 () of 16.12.2019
Online on 22.01.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 16.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61B 5/11	Application no. 07722204.0
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - (nein) Klarheit - (nein)				Application title TRAGBARES DIAGNOSTISCHES SYSTEM FÜR GLEICHGEWICHTSFUNKTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T196814.20191216				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 326 KB)
T 0757/15 () of 18.11.2019
Online on 22.01.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61M 16/00 A61M 16/10	Application no. 08396014.6
Keywords Admittance of a document filed with the statement of grounds of appeal (yes) Novelty - main request (no) Admittance of first auxiliary request (no)				Application title Arrangement for detecting a leak in anesthesia system
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T075715.20191118				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 339 KB)
T 0817/15 () of 14.11.2019
Online on 22.01.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 14.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C12M 1/00 G01N 35/04 B65G 1/04 G01N 35/00 G01N 35/02 B65G 1/137	Application no. 04000422.8
Keywords Rechtliches Gehör - Fernbleiben von der mündlichen Verhandlung Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Automatisches Lagersystem und Klimaschrank mit automatischem Lagersystem
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T081715.20191114				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 318 KB)
T 0379/16 (EPICHLORHYDRIN PRODUCTION/TECHNIP) of 19.11.2019
Online on 22.01.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 303/08 C08G 59/04	Application no. 06121391.4
Keywords Inventive step - all requests (no)				Application title Process for producing epichlorhydrin
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T037916.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 369 KB)
T 0832/16 () of 7.11.2019
Online on 22.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 3/08 F01N 3/20 B01D 53/94	Application no. 04714777.2
Keywords Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary request 3 - request clearly allowable (no) Amendments - auxiliary request 4 Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 4 (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - auxiliary request 4 (yes)				Application title EXHAUST-GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM FOR THE SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION OF NITROGEN OXIDES IN THE LEAN EXHAUST GAS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES AND METHOD OF EXHAUST-GAS PURIFICATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T083216.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 349 KB)
T 2138/14 () of 6.11.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 6.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/44 H04N 5/445 G06F 3/048	Application no. 09826393.2
Keywords Substantial procedural violation - (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (no) Inventive step - main and first auxiliary request (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title Techniques for implementing a cursor for televisions
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T213814.20191106				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 425 KB)
T 0054/16 () of 16.10.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 16.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A24C 5/34 A24D 1/02	Application no. 10158697.2
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja) Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja) Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - eingereicht mit der Beschwerdebegründung Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (ja) Spät eingereichter Antrag - zugelassen (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge				Application title Verfahren zur optischen Kontrolle eines Umhüllungspapierstreifens der Tabak verarbeitenden Industrie
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T005416.20191016				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 560 KB)
T 0228/16 () of 16.1.2020
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC A45C 11/00 A61L 12/04 A61L 12/08	Application no. 04765064.3
Keywords Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title METHOD AND CONTAINER FOR STERILIZING AND STORING SOFT CONTACT LENSES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T022816.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 285 KB)
T 0970/16 (Soil release benefits / PROCTER & GAMBLE) of 22.10.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/386	Application no. 08869755.2
Keywords Admissibility of opponent 1' appeal (no) - missing statement of grounds Sufficiency of the disclosure (all requests) : (no)				Application title USE OF A CELLULASE TO IMPART SOIL RELEASE BENEFITS TO COTTON DURING A SUBSEQUENT LAUNDERING PROCESS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T097016.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 382 KB)
T 1054/16 () of 27.11.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 27.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F04D 19/04 F04D 29/66 F16F 15/02	Application no. 11155766.6
Keywords Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no) Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Vibration damper for vacuum pumps
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T105416.20191127				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 373 KB)
T 1487/16 (HÖCHSTDISPERGIERBARE SILICAS/EVONIK DEGUSSA) of 12.6.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 12.6.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B82Y30/00 C01B33/193 C08K3/36	Application no. 04700701.8
Keywords Priorität - dieselbe Erfindung (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - unerwartete Verbesserung				Application title HÖCHSTDISPERGIERBARE SILICAS FÜR GUMMIANWENDUNGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T148716.20190612				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 420 KB)
T 1643/16 () of 2.12.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 2.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A47L 15/48	Application no. 05819348.3
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title GESCHIRRSPÜLMASCHINE MIT EINER SORPTIONSTROCKENVORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUM BETREIBEN DERSELBEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T164316.20191202				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 330 KB)
T 0122/17 () of 16.1.2020
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 16.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC F04D 29/28	Application no. 10003653.2
Keywords Änderungen - zulässig (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title Lüfterrad
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T012217.20200116				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 359 KB)
T 1196/17 () of 15.1.2020
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01D 18/00	Application no. 13190334.6
Keywords Main request - admissibility - sufficiently substantiated (no) Auxiliary request - added subject-matter (yes) - clarity (no) - sufficiency of disclosure (no)				Application title Variable scale sensor
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T119617.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 324 KB)
T 1311/17 () of 11.10.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 11.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A22B 3/08	Application no. 08742803.3
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - statement of grounds Amendments - allowable (yes)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STUNNING POULTRY WITH GAS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T131117.20191011				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 338 KB)
T 2242/17 (Calcium carbonate/FP-Pigments Oy) of 13.11.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 13.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C01F 11/18 C09C 1/02 B82Y 30/00	Application no. 05763248.1
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Late filed auxiliary request - admitted (no)				Application title METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OF A CALCIUM CARBONATE PRODUCT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T224217.20191113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 307 KB)
T 1090/18 () of 22.10.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 17/00	Application no. 07703226.6
Keywords Right to be heard - opposition procedure Right to be heard - change of composition of the opposition division Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary request - admitted (no)				Application title CAN END FOR A CAN AND SUCH CAN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T109018.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 345 KB)
T 2948/18 (Plant maintenance/SIEMENS) of 25.11.2019
Online on 21.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/00	Application no. 01957609.9
Keywords Remittal to the department of first instance - (no) Reimbursement of international search fee - (board not competent) Inventive step - (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title Plant maintenance technology architecture
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T294818.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 325 KB)
T 1599/14 (Dispositif de sécurisation / Oberthur) of 4.10.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.4.01	Decision date 4.10.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC G06K 19/073	Application no. 06778867.9
Keywords Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - exposé de l'invention permettant sa mise en uvre (oui) État de la technique le plus proche				Application title DISPOSITIF DE SECURISATION ACTIVE POUR DISPOSITIF ELECTRONIQUE SANS CONTACT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T159914.20191004				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 380 KB)
T 1818/14 (User interface for appliance/ELECTROLUX) of 2.12.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.5.03	Decision date 2.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G05B 19/042	Application no. 10009869.8
Keywords Document D4 made available to the public (yes) Inventive step (no) Inventive step - main request Admissibility of auxiliary requests (no) - either not substantiated or prima facie not allowable				Application title User interface and appliance of household or industrial type
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T181814.20191202				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 344 KB)
T 0132/15 () of 6.12.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.5.02	Decision date 6.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC H01H 85/00	Application no. 10164150.4
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Stromwandlereinheit
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T013215.20191206				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 434 KB)
T 2240/15 () of 22.10.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.2.03	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B22D 11/00 C22C 21/08 C22F 1/04	Application no. 05791238.8
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Inventive step - ex post facto analysis Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)				Application title Method for producing plural panel automotive members
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T224015.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 383 KB)
T 1332/16 () of 24.10.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 24.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC E06B 5/16 E04B 1/94 A62C 2/06	Application no. 04025822.0
Keywords Änderungen Neuheit Erfinderische Tätigkeit				Application title Feuerabschlusselement und Verfahren zur Herstellung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T133216.20191024				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 348 KB)
T 2119/16 () of 18.12.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 18.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G01G 13/24 G01G 13/02 B65G 33/32	Application no. 06706101.0
Keywords Inventive step (main request: no) Admission of amended requests filed during appeal proceedings (auxiliary requests: no)				Application title WEIGHING ARRANGEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T211916.20191218				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 361 KB)
T 2693/16 () of 25.10.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 25.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C08F 220/06 C08F 6/06 C08J 3/28	Application no. 09768037.5
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Hauptantrag				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR ABTRENNUNG METALLISCHER VERUNREINIGUNGEN
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T269316.20191025				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 300 KB)
T 0731/17 (Object persistence/MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING) of 15.1.2020
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 15.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/30	Application no. 04779551.3
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Claims - clarity (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes)				Application title Object persistence in a database store
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T073117.20200115				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 356 KB)
T 0574/18 (Catalytic oxychlorination/Albermarle) of 17.10.2019
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 17.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B01J 27/122 C07C 17/156 B01J 27/138 C07C 19/045	Application no. 06792834.1
Keywords Late-filed new main request - admissible - yes - filed in reaction to the Board's communication Amendments - added subject-matter (no) Claims - clarity (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - (yes)				Application title CATALYTIC OXYCHLORINATION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T057418.20191017				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 291 KB)
T 2538/18 () of 13.1.2020
Online on 20.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 13.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC G01N 21/88	Application no. 05027593.2
Keywords Substantial procedural violation (yes) Remittal of the case and reimbursement of the appeal fee (yes)				Application title Enhanced video metrology tool
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T253818.20200113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 315 KB)
T 1214/14 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.5.04	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04N 5/445 H04H 60/43	Application no. 09170818.0
Keywords Inventive step - main and auxiliary request (no)				Application title Channel registering apparatus and channel registering method
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T121414.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 307 KB)
T 1262/15 () of 7.11.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G01N 1/28	Application no. 06763730.6
Keywords Unzulässige Verallgemeinerung (nein) Stand der Technik - Öffentliche Zugänglichkeit einer Bedienungsanleitung (ja) Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR LASER-MIKRODISSEKTION MIT EINER KONTINUIERLICHEN VERÄNDERUNG DER SCHNITTPARAMETER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T126215.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 454 KB)
T 1618/15 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.4.02	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G01N 1/28	Application no. 04791269.6
Keywords Neuheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (Alle Anträge: nein)				Application title VERFAHREN ZUR AUTOMATISCHEN ERZEUGUNG VON LASER-SCHNITTLINIEN IN DER LASER-MIKRODISSEKTION
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T161815.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 424 KB)
T 1442/16 (Cabrera ECG/PHILIPS) of 30.8.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 30.8.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 19/00	Application no. 05777582.7
Keywords Inventive step - main request and auxiliary requests I, II, III and IVa (no) Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features Amendments - auxiliary requests IV, V , VI and Va Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance - auxiliary request VIa (yes)				Application title METHOD OF MEDICAL MONITORING
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T144216.20190830				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 376 KB)
T 0680/17 (Trend notification/LIFESCAN) of 12.11.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 19/00 A61B 5/00 A61B 5/145	Application no. 13151120.6
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter (yes) Inventive step - (no)				Application title Analyte testing method and system with high and low blood glucose trends notification
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T068017.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 387 KB)
T 2144/17 (Hard surface cleaning composition/The Procter & Gamble Company) of 24.10.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 24.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 1/825 C11D 3/20 C11D 3/36 C11D 3/37 C11D 3/43 C11D 17/04	Application no. 06124062.8
Keywords Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Liquid hard surface cleaning compositions
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T214417.20191024				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 334 KB)
T 2789/17 () of 25.11.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC B60S 1/48	Application no. 11794697.0
Keywords Modifications - extension au-delà du contenu de la demande telle que déposée (non) Revendications - clarté (oui) Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - (oui) Nouveauté - (oui) Activité inventive - (oui) Preuves produites tardivement - recevable (oui)				Application title DISPOSITIF D'ESSUIE-GLACE ET DE LAVE-GLACE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T278917.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 312 KB)
T 1076/18 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F21S 4/00 F21V 19/00 F21V 29/00 F21V 17/16 F21Y 101/02 F21Y 103/00	Application no. 11764521.8
Keywords Änderungen - Zwischenverallgemeinerung				Application title LEUCHTMODULANORDNUNG MIT EINER LED AUF EINER PLATINE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T107618.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 357 KB)
T 0071/19 () of 11.12.2019
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B60R 1/00	Application no. 14198300.7
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - Gegenstand geht über den Inhalt der früheren Anmeldung hinaus (ja)				Application title Anzeigeeinrichtung für Sichtfelder eines Nutzfahrzeugs
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T007119.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 260 KB)
T 2322/19 (Missing statement of grounds/GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS … of 14.1.2020
Online on 17.01.2020	Board 3.5.07	Decision date 14.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC H03M 13/23	Application no. 08844265.2
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds				Application title Optimum distance spectrum feedforward tail-biting convolutional codes
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T232219.20200114				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 222 KB)
T 1713/13 () of 28.10.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 28.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61M 1/10	Application no. 07785682.1
Keywords Unzureichende substantiierung in der Beschwerdebegründung - (ja) Spät vorgebrachter Einwand - zugelassen (nein) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)				Application title BLUTPUMPE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T171313.20191028				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 856 KB)
T 1511/14 () of 20.9.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.02	Decision date 20.9.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61M 21/02 H05B 37/02	Application no. 07108143.4
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja) Zulässigkeit verspäteter Einwände und Beweismittel (nein)				Application title Leuchte mit "Melatonin-schonender" Wirkung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T151114.20190920				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 426 KB)
T 0101/15 (PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIZING PEROXIDES / Arkema) of 7.11.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 409/24 C07C 409/34 C07C 409/38 C07C 409/04 C07C 409/10 C07C 409/22	Application no. 07728595.5
Keywords Grounds for opposition - extension of subject-matter (yes) Late-filed auxiliary request - request clearly allowable (no)				Application title PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIZING SELECTED ORGANIC PEROXIDES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T010115.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 336 KB)
T 0998/15 () of 13.1.2020
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 13.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B08B 3/02 B08B 3/08	Application no. 10425291.1
Keywords Lapse of patent in all designated states - termination of appeal proceedings Patent proprietor sole appellant				Application title Multi-purpose truck for re-establishment of safe and practicable road conditions, after car accidents, through cleaning of the road platform
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T099815.20200113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 231 KB)
T 1919/15 () of 12.11.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC F01D 5/14	Application no. 09718837.9
Keywords Activité inventive - requête principale (non) Activité inventive - requêtes subsidiaires 1 Activité inventive - 3 (non) Modifications - extension au-delà du contenu de la demande telle que déposée Modifications - requête subsidiaire 4 (oui)				Application title AUBE AVEC PLATEFORME 3D COMPORTANT UN BULBE INTERAUBES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T191915.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 467 KB)
T 0390/16 (PROCEDE DE FABRICATION DE L'HEXAMETHYLENE DIAMINE/Rhodia Opé … of 24.9.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 24.9.2019	Proc. language FR	IPC C07C 209/48 C07C 211/12	Application no. 07788893.1
Keywords Nouveauté - requête principale (non) Modifications - requêtes subsidiaires: extension au-delà du contenu de la demande telle que déposée (oui)				Application title PROCEDE DE FABRICATION DE L'HÈXAMÈTHYLÈNE DIAMINE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T039016.20190924				Distribution D	Decision Texte de la décision en FR (PDF, 340 KB)
T 1502/16 (Hot work steel/Rovalma) of 15.10.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 38/44	Application no. 09382044.7
Keywords Transfer of opposition - (yes) Admissibility of appeal - (yes) Late-filed document - admitted (yes) Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)				Application title Hot work tool steel with outstanding toughness and thermal conductivity
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T150216.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 328 KB)
T 0298/17 () of 17.9.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 17.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 407/00 C07C 409/00 C08F 4/34 C08F 4/38	Application no. 10737342.5
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - all requests				Application title STORAGE STABLE AND SAFE PEROXIDE EMULSIONS WITH A HIGH ACTIVE OXYGEN CONTENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T029817.20190917				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 322 KB)
T 1687/17 () of 9.1.2020
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 9.1.2020	Proc. language DE	IPC E01C 19/20 E01C 21/00 E01C 23/06	Application no. 10000332.6
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Änderungen - Erweiterung über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der eingereichten Fassung hinaus (nein) Neuheit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Form der Entscheidung - gekürzte Form				Application title Stabilisierer oder Recycler
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T168717.20200109				Distribution C	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 250 KB)
T 1723/17 () of 26.11.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 26.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A61L 9/12 A61L 9/03	Application no. 10766370.0
Keywords Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title METHODS OF EMITTING A VOLATILE MATERIAL FROM A DIFFUSER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T172317.20191126				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 328 KB)
T 1965/18 () of 11.11.2019
Online on 16.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 11.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B60R 9/048 B60R 9/10	Application no. 14165400.4
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title A tensioning device for a bicycle support assembly or a load carrier
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T196518.20191111				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 293 KB)
T 2186/15 () of 8.11.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 8.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B07B 1/46	Application no. 07820483.1
Keywords Spät eingereichte Anträge - zugelassen (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Mündliche Verhandlung - Fernbleiben von der mündlichen Verhandlung				Application title VERFAHREN ZUM KLASSIEREN WASSERABSORBIERENDER POLYMERPARTIKEL
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T218615.20191108				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 330 KB)
T 0423/16 () of 19.11.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 7/04 D03D 13/00 D03D 15/00	Application no. 10187787.6
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title High abrasion resistance tape
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T042316.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 319 KB)
T 0957/16 () of 13.11.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 13.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A01G 9/24	Application no. 07810937.8
Keywords Amendments - added subject-matter (main request : yes) Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (auxiliary request : yes) Late submitted material - prior use Late submitted material - evidence admitted Late submitted material - (no) Novelty - auxiliary request (yes) Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)				Application title GREENHOUSE AND FORCED GREENHOUSE CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T095716.20191113				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 511 KB)
T 1212/16 (Surface treatment of paper / BLANKOPHOR) of 10.10.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 10.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC D21H 17/07 D21H 17/09 D21H 17/51 C07D 251/00 C09K 11/06 D21H 21/30	Application no. 10171451.7
Keywords Inventive step (all requests) Inventive step - (no)				Application title Composition and process for whitening paper
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T121216.20191010				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 396 KB)
T 1540/16 () of 18.10.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 18.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F02M 35/024 F02M 35/08 B23D 45/16	Application no. 08159684.3
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title Power cutter
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T154016.20191018				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 326 KB)
T 1821/16 () of 10.1.2020
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.07	Decision date 10.1.2020	Proc. language EN	IPC B67D 1/00	Application no. 08799131.1
Keywords -				Application title SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PORTION CONTROL PROGRAMMING IN A PRODUCT FORMING DISPENSER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T182116.20200110				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 304 KB)
T 2068/16 () of 25.11.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.04	Decision date 25.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A24C 5/47 A24D 1/02 A24D 3/04	Application no. 10717644.8
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Late-filed request - adjournment of oral proceedings would have been required (yes) Late-filed request - admitted (no)				Application title SMOKING ARTICLE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T206816.20191125				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 352 KB)
T 2095/16 () of 15.10.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 15.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 273/16 B01D 53/94	Application no. 06732932.6
Keywords Inventive step - (no)				Application title PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A UREA-COMPRISING AQUEOUS STREAM
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T209516.20191015				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 0123/17 () of 22.10.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 22.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A47G 23/06	Application no. 09776408.8
Keywords Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no) Late-filed request - admitted (no) Admissibility of appeal - (yes)				Application title COMBINATION OF TRAYS, IN PARTICULAR FOR CATERING PURPOSES ONBOARD AIRCRAFTS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T012317.20191022				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 324 KB)
T 0734/17 () of 20.9.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 20.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B60R 21/272 B60R 21/274	Application no. 12161507.4
Keywords Novelty - main request (no) Novelty - auxiliary request 1 (no) Novelty - auxiliary request 2 (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter Amendments - auxiliary request 1a (yes) Amendments - added subject-matter Amendments - auxiliary request 2 (no) Claims - clarity Claims - auxiliary request 2 (yes) Remittal to the department of first instance for inventive step of auxiliary request 2 (no) for adaptation of the description (yes) Inventive Step - auxiliary request 2 (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)				Application title Gas generator for inflating a gas bag of a vehicle occupant restraint system and method of inflating a gas bag
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T073417.20190920				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 466 KB)
T 1744/17 () of 14.10.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 14.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C09J 153/00 C09J 153/02	Application no. 07844895.8
Keywords Claims - clarity Claims - main request (no) Claims - clarity Claims - auxiliary requests 1 to 5 (no)				Application title BLENDS OF BLOCK COPOLYMER AND ACRYLIC ADHESIVES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T174417.20191014				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 337 KB)
T 1926/19 () of 18.11.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 18.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A45B 25/00 A45B 25/14 A45B 25/16	Application no. 05783984.7
Keywords Novelty - (no)				Application title A SWITCH USED FOR AN UMBRELLA CAPABLE OF OPERATION BY ONE HAND
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T192619.20191118				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 306 KB)
T 2105/19 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 15.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A23G 1/02 A23L 1/30 A23G 1/00	Application no. 01944475.1
Keywords Inadmissible appeal - Missing statement of grounds				Application title AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR EXTRACTING COCOA PROCYANIDINS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T210519.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 221 KB)
T 0343/16 () of 12.11.2019
Online on 14.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 12.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B65D 41/04 C08K 5/00 C08L 23/10	Application no. 07253139.5
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Admissibility of appeal- Yes Admissibility of appeal - reference to statement of grounds of other appellant permissible				Application title Article comprising polypropylene composition
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T034316.20191112				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 392 KB)
T 0834/16 () of 21.10.2019
Online on 14.01.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 21.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F16D 23/06	Application no. 09155959.1
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - unzulässige Erweiterung (ja) Einspruchsgründe - Hauptantrag Spät eingereichtes Dokument - Wechsel des Gegenstandes Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - Rechtfertigung für späte Vorlage (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (ja) Neuheit - (ja) Neuheit - Hilfsantrag 1a Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag 1a				Application title Rastanordnung für eine Getriebe-Schaltkupplung
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T083416.20191021				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 463 KB)
T 0544/15 () of 5.11.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 5.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F04B 43/00	Application no. 05758995.4
Keywords Statement of grounds of appeal - party's complete case Late-filed requests (main and first auxiliary request) Late-filed request - change of subject-matter Inventive step yes (second auxiliary request) Inventive step - ex post facto analysis				Application title PERISTALTIC PUMP TUBE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T054415.20191105				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 351 KB)
T 0231/16 (ACIDIC CLEANING COMPOSITION / Colgate-Palmolive) of 25.9.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 25.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C11D 3/37 C11D 1/00	Application no. 06801588.2
Keywords Inventive step (all requests) Inventive step - obvious solution				Application title ACIDIC CLEANING COMPOSITION CONTAINING A HYDROPHILIZING POLYMER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T023116.20190925				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 1346/16 (PULP FLOW SPLITTER/ANDRITZ) of 7.10.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 7.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC D21C 7/06 D21C 9/02 D21C 9/10 D21C 5/02 D21F 1/06	Application no. 06725884.8
Keywords Late-filed auxiliary requests - amendments after arrangement of oral proceedings Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes) Inventive step - (yes)				Application title AN APPARATUS FOR DISTRUIBUTING A PULP FLOW
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T134616.20191007				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 323 KB)
T 1952/16 () of 1.10.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.10	Decision date 1.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07C 51/09 C07C 67/327 C07C 51/50	Application no. 02254650.1
Keywords -				Application title Method for decomposition of Michael type adduct
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T195216.20191001				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 341 KB)
T 0409/17 (Perlglanzpigmente/Eckart GmbH) of 18.10.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.06	Decision date 18.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C09C 1/00	Application no. 08007357.0
Keywords Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit (ja) Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz - (ja)				Application title Perlglanzpigmente auf Basis von feinen und dünnen Substraten
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T040917.20191018				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 428 KB)
T 0524/17 (Brass and Goss textures/ARCONIC) of 11.10.2019
Online on 13.01.2020	Board 3.3.05	Decision date 11.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C22C 21/00 C22F 1/04	Application no. 08797870.6
Keywords Amendments - allowable (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - main request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)				Application title RECRYSTALLIZED ALUMINUM ALLOYS WITH BRASS TEXTURE AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T052417.20191011				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 407 KB)
T 1039/13 (Updating information/EQUIFAX) of 11.12.2019
Online on 10.01.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 11.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/60	Application no. 02792279.8
Keywords Inventive step - information supplier receiving and updating information buyer's database (no Inventive step - non technical requirement)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND UPDATING INFORMATION RELATING TO ECONOMIC ENTITIES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T103913.20191211				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 360 KB)
T 1102/15 (ROTIERENDE ADSORPTIONSVORRICHTUNG) of 24.9.2019
Online on 10.01.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 24.9.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B01D 53/06 B01D 53/26	Application no. 09177948.8
Keywords Neuheit - (nein) Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Adsorptionstrocknungsvorrichtung sowie Adsorptionstrocknungsverfahren
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T110215.20190924				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 620 KB)
T 1732/16 () of 26.9.2019
Online on 10.01.2020	Board 3.3.02	Decision date 26.9.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C07D 211/90	Application no. 07788151.4
Keywords Inventive step Late-filed facts Late-filed auxiliary requests				Application title PROCESS FOR PREPARING AMORPHOUS LERCANIDIPINE HYDROCHLORIDE
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T173216.20190926				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 469 KB)
T 2405/16 () of 6.11.2019
Online on 10.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 6.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08C 19/02 C08F 236/12 C08L 15/00 C08K 5/14	Application no. 09770243.5
Keywords Late-filed document - admitted (no) Novelty - (yes: all requests) Inventive step - (no: all requests)				Application title NITRILE GROUP-CONTAINING HIGHLY SATURATED COPOLYMER RUBBER
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T240516.20191106				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 490 KB)
J 0008/19 () of 29.11.2019
Online on 09.01.2020	Board 3.1.01	Decision date 29.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC -	Application no. -
Keywords Correction of error - form for payment of appeal fee (yes) Divisional application - pending earlier European patent application (no)				Application title N.N.
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:J000819.20191129				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 440 KB)
T 1657/16 () of 14.10.2019
Online on 09.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 14.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08G 63/12 C08G 63/78 C08L 67/00	Application no. 06732230.5
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Novelty - main request Inventive step - (no) Inventive step - main request Auxiliary requests filed with rejoinder to statements of grounds of appeal but not motivated - admittance - no				Application title BIOMASS-RESOURCE-DERIVED POLYESTER AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T165716.20191014				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 403 KB)
T 0805/17 () of 9.10.2019
Online on 09.01.2020	Board 3.2.08	Decision date 9.10.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC A61C 13/00	Application no. 04725595.5
Keywords Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (ja)				Application title Rohling zur Herstellung zahnmedizinischer Rekonstruktionen und Herstellungsverfahren desselben
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T080517.20191009				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 563 KB)
T 1711/16 () of 9.10.2019
Online on 08.01.2020	Board 3.3.03	Decision date 9.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08K 3/26 C08L 63/02 C08K 9/04	Application no. 09806065.0
Keywords Documents admitted - discretionary decision of the opposition division overturned Document admitted - legitimate and timely reaction Main request - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes) Auxiliary request - novelty (yes) Inventive step (no) Inventive step - comparative examples suitable starting point for assessing inventive step Admittance second to nineteenth auxiliary requests (no) - absence of / late substantiation				Application title NANOCALCITE COMPOSITES
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T171116.20191009				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 518 KB)
R 0008/18 () of 14.10.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board EBA	Decision date 14.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C08L 101/14 C08K 3/10 A61F 13/53 A61L 15/60	Application no. 04746711.3
Keywords Obligation to raise objections - objection raised (no) Petition for review - fundamental violation of the right to be heard (no) Petition for review - clearly unallowable				Application title WATER ABSORBENT RESIN COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:R000818.20191014				Distribution B	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 446 KB)
T 1776/13 (Improving personalization of advertising/SAMSUNG) of 25.7.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 25.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 30/00	Application no. 09179420.6
Keywords Inventive step - improved personalisation of advertisements based on ratings of peers (no Inventive step - not technical) Inventive step - reduction of network traffic (no Inventive step - speculative and bonus effect)				Application title Method and system for improving personalization of advertising for mobile devices using peer rating
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T177613.20190725				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 323 KB)
T 1960/13 (Manipulationssicherheit eines Endgerätes / GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE … of 7.11.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 7.11.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC G06Q 20/00 G06F 21/00	Application no. 09015883.3
Keywords Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag Erfinderische Tätigkeit - portabler Datenträger (nein Erfinderische Tätigkeit - allgemein bekannt) Änderungen - Hilfsantrag Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (ja)				Application title Manipulationssicherheit eines Endgeräts
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T196013.20191107				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 320 KB)
T 2437/13 (Coronavirus/AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE) of 19.6.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.3.08	Decision date 19.6.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC C12N 7/00 C07K 14/165 A61K 39/215 C12Q 1/68 G01N 33/569 C07K 16/10	Application no. 04077342.6
Keywords New main request - admission into the proceedings (yes) Admission of documents D12 and D49 to D51 (no) Amendments - allowable (yes) Claims - clarity (yes) Exceptions to patentability - (no) Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) Priority - (yes) Novelty - main request (yes) Inventive step - main request (yes)				Application title Coronavirus, nucleic acid, protein and methods for the generation of vaccine, medicaments and diagnostics
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T243713.20190619				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 584 KB)
T 1862/15 () of 24.10.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 24.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 51/50	Application no. 06785389.5
Keywords Amendments - allowable (no) Inventive step - (no) arbitrary selection				Application title BROADBAND LIGHT TANDEM OLED DISPLAY
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T186215.20191024				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 443 KB)
T 0141/16 () of 3.12.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 3.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B62M 25/04	Application no. 05291019.7
Keywords Admissibility of appeal - appeal sufficiently substantiated (yes) Inventive step - main request (no) Late-filed request - admitted (yes) Amendments - intermediate generalisation Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes)				Application title Bicycle shift operating device
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T014116.20191203				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 463 KB)
T 0151/16 () of 17.12.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.3.09	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC A23L 1/236	Application no. 07864591.8
Keywords Late-filed requests: admitted (no) Late-filed request - none				Application title CONFECTIONERY COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING AN ELASTOMERIC COMPONENT AND A SACCHARIDE COMPONENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T015116.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 323 KB)
T 0166/17 (HAPTIC MONITORING SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SENSORS / Immersion) of 19.12.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 19.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 3/01	Application no. 09802061.3
Keywords Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes) Summons to oral proceedings - non-attendance of party announced Summons to oral proceedings - oral proceedings cancelled				Application title METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A HAPTIC MONITORING SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SENSORS
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T016617.20191219				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 286 KB)
T 0775/17 (Transportprotein/IPSEN) of 10.5.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.3.04	Decision date 10.5.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC C07K 14/195 C07K 14/33 A61K 38/00	Application no. 10011509.6
Keywords Hauptantrag, Hilfsanträge 1 bis 4 - Gegenstand geht über den Inhalt der Anmeldung in der ursprünglich eingereichten Fassung hinaus (ja)				Application title Carrier zum Targeting von Nervenzellen
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T077517.20190510				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 437 KB)
T 0515/19 (Business impact management/BMC SOFTWARE) of 12.12.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06F 17/60 H04L 12/24 G06F 11/34	Application no. 01965508.3
Keywords Clarity - both requests (no)				Application title SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AND BUSINESS IMPACT MANAGEMENT
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T051519.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 300 KB)
T 1215/19 (Missing grounds of appeal) of 20.12.2019
Online on 07.01.2020	Board 3.4.03	Decision date 20.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H01L 23/498 H05K 1/11	Application no. 00307694.0
Keywords -				Application title Method for increasing device reliability of a BGA package
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T121519.20191220				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 223 KB)
T 1308/13 (Customised shared environment/DISNEY) of 17.12.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.5.01	Decision date 17.12.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC G06Q 10/00 G06T 11/00	Application no. 10000283.1
Keywords Inventive step - customising a shared enviornment Inventive step - translation of interaction data (no Inventive step - not technical)				Application title System and method for customized experiences in a shared online environment
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T130813.20191217				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 296 KB)
T 1249/14 () of 12.12.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 12.12.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC B42D 25/00 B42D 25/29 B42D 25/324	Application no. 05735248.6
Keywords Vorliegen einer unzulässigen Erweiterung (ja) Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - nicht eindeutig gewährbar Spät eingereichte Hilfsanträge - zugelassen (nein)				Application title Sicherheitselement in Form eines mehrschichtigen Folienkörpers
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T124914.20191212				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 1 MB)
T 0701/15 () of 2.5.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 2.5.2019	Proc. language DE	IPC F16K 31/06 H01F 7/14	Application no. 07723761.8
Keywords Zulässigkeit (ja) Unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) Klarheit (ja) Erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)				Application title Ventil mit einem elektromagnetischen Antrieb
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T070115.20190502				Distribution D	Decision Text der Entscheidung in DE (PDF, 483 KB)
T 1362/15 () of 8.10.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.2.06	Decision date 8.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F01N 3/28 F01N 11/00 F01N 3/08 F01N 13/00 F01N 13/18	Application no. 05773234.9
Keywords Inventive step - main request (no) Inventive step - auxiliary request 1 (no) Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - admissibility (no) Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed Amendments - auxiliary requests 2 to 4 (no)				Application title CATALYTIC CONVERTER AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF ASSEMBLY
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T136215.20191008				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 401 KB)
T 1943/15 () of 21.10.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.2.05	Decision date 21.10.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC F16L 15/00 F16L 15/06 E21B 17/042	Application no. 09796619.6
Keywords Sufficiency of disclosure (yes) Sufficiency of disclosure - open-ended range (point 2.5) Novelty (yes) Novelty - dimensions from drawings (point 4) Inventive step (yes)				Application title Tubular connection with self locking threading used in the oil industry
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T194315.20191021				Distribution C	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 1 MB)
T 1249/16 (MPLS network routing policy/HUAWEI) of 19.11.2019
Online on 03.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 19.11.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 12/723	Application no. 06817845.8
Keywords Novelty - (yes) Inventive step - (yes) Amendments - allowable (yes) Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)				Application title A STRATEGIC ROUTING DEVICE AND METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T124916.20191119				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 331 KB)
T 1473/15 (OFDM frame power control/HUAWEI) of 29.8.2019
Online on 02.01.2020	Board 3.5.05	Decision date 29.8.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC H04L 27/26 H04B 7/04	Application no. 09804964.6
Keywords Inventive step - (no) Late-filed auxiliary request - admitted (no)				Application title RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T147315.20190829				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 296 KB)
T 1624/16 () of 10.7.2019
Online on 02.01.2020	Board 3.2.01	Decision date 10.7.2019	Proc. language EN	IPC B60T 13/74 B60T 17/22	Application no. 07123489.2
Keywords Novelty - (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - request clearly allowable (no) Late-filed auxiliary requests - justification for late filing (no) Appealed decision sufficiently reasoned Appealed decision - (yes) Right to be heard - substantial procedural violation (no) Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)				Application title Method and device for controlling the intervention of the electric parking brake of a vehicle, in condition of dynamic functioning
European Case Law Identifier ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T162416.20190710				Distribution D	Decision Decision text in EN (PDF, 483 KB)

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