T 0136/88 () of 11.10.1989 | XEPC: EPC and PCT resource

European Case Law Identifier:

ECLI:EP:BA:1989:T013688.19891011

Date of decision:

11 October 1989

Case number:

T 0136/88

Application number:

82200657.3

IPC class:

A01B 49/02
A01B 33/06
A01B 33/16

Language of proceedings:

Distribution:

Download and more information:

Decision text in EN (PDF, 371Â KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in:	EN
Versions:	Unpublished

Title of application:

Soil cultivating implements

Applicant name:

C. Van der Lely N.V.

Opponent name:

1) Amazonen-Werke
2) Rabewerk H.Clausing

Board:

3.2.02

Headnote:

Relevant legal provisions:

European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 113(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 113(2)

Keywords:

inadmissible deletion of an essential feature in an
independent claim
a party, which without giving any reasons, is absent
from an oral proceeding, although duly summoned, did
not make use of his right to present comments and
thereby exhausted such right
without newly filed claims in the appeal procedure,
the Board has to decide on the basis of the claims
on file

Catchwords:

Cited decisions:

T 0201/83
T 0331/87

Citing decisions:

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t880136eu1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021