T 0867/92 (Late citation, risk of costs) of 13.4.1994

European Case Law Identifier:

ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T086792.19940413

Date of decision:

13 April 1994

Case number:

T 0867/92

Application number:

85304218.2

IPC class:

G11B 5/72

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Title of application:

Magnetic recording medium

Applicant name:

Konica Corporation

Opponent name:

01) N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken
02) Agfa-Gevaert AG
03) Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

Board:

3.5.02

Headnote:

The EPC does not impose a time limit for citing new prior art in response to an amendment of the claims. However, an opponent who cites new prior art with a considerable delay (in the present case some 18 months after the claims had been amended) with no special reason justifying the delay, runs the risk of having to bear some or all of the proprietor's costs incurred in attending oral proceedings which cannot bring the case to an end because of the new citation.

Relevant legal provisions:

European Patent Convention 1973 Art 104(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 111(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 114(2)

Keywords:

New prior art cited with considerable delay after claims had been amended - considered relevant
Oral proceedings could not bring case to an end because of late citation
Remittal of case to Opposition Division
Apportionment of costs

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Cited decisions:

Citing decisions:

T 1019/93

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t920867ex1.html

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