T 0454/04 of 13.02.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T045404.20070213
- Date of decision
- 13 February 2007
- Case number
- T 0454/04
- Online on
- 3 April 2007
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97926023.9
- IPC class
- D21F 1/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Roll and blade twin-wire gap former for a paper machine
- Applicant name
- Metso Paper, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Voith Paper Patent GmbH
- Board
- 3.2.07
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123 1973
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Admissibility of amendments (yes)
Inventive step (main request and first auxiliary request - no, second auxiliary request - yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent with the following documents:
Claims: 1 to 4 of the second auxiliary request as filed with letter of 12 January 2007
Description: columns 1 to 16 as filed in the oral proceedings on 13 February 2007
Drawings: figures 1 to 16 as granted