| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T070695.20000522 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 22 May 2000 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0706/95 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 86906556.5 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C01B 21/00 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Reduction of nitrogen-based pollutants through the use of urea solutions containing oxygenated hydrocarbon solvents | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | FUEL TECH, INC. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Noell-KRC Umwelttechnik GmbH | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.05 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Main and first auxiliary requests - novelty (no) - new use (no) - additional effect of a known process or use Second, fifth and sixth auxiliary requests - amendment not allowable Third and fourth auxiliary requests - obvious modifications |
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The discovery that the same known means lead to an additional effect when they are used for the same known purpose (i.e. known use) of reducing the concentration of nitrogen oxides in the same effluent cannot confer novelty to this known use (see point 2.5). |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t950706eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021