| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T068101.20061128 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 28 November 2006 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0681/01 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 97307021.2 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | D06P 1/44 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | A treated fabric, a method of treatment and a window covering product comprising such material | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | HUNTER DOUGLAS INDUSTRIES B.V. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | 01: Junkers + Müllers GmbH 02: LOUVER-LITE Ltd |
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| Board: | 3.3.07 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | (1) Article 69 EPC and the protocol thereto cannot be relied on to read into the claim an implicit restrictive feature not suggested by the explicit wording of the claim (see point 2.1.1) (2) There must be something in the circumstances that suggests that a confidential relation existed before a delivery which appears to be the result of an ordinary commercial transaction can be disregarded as not making the delivered goods available to a member of the public. |
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| Keywords: | Claim construction - reliance on Article 69 EPC to restrict claim (no) Prior use - confidentiality (no) Novelty - Main request, first auxiliary request (no) Amendment allowable (Article 123(2)EPC) - second auxiliary request (no) Novelty third auxiliary request over particular prior use (yes) Remittal (yes) |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t010681eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021