T 0692/00 (Bar Coater/VALMET) of 13.5.2003

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T069200.20030513
Date of decision: 13 May 2003
Case number: T 0692/00
Application number: 93850110.3
IPC class: D21H 23/58
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
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Decision text in EN (PDF, 35 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Coating device for the coating of a size-press roll, paper, or board
Applicant name: VALMET CORPORATION
Opponent name: Voith Sulzer Papiermachinen GmbH
Board: 3.3.06
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 84
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(3)
Keywords: All requests: Admissibility of amendments - yes; ambiguity not created by amendments
Main request and first auxiliary request: Novelty - no
Second and third auxiliary request: Inventive step - no; reformulation of the technical problem to be solved in view of the closest prior art; solution - obvious to try
Oral proceedings: attendance - announcement of a party (having requested oral proceedings) shortly before the appointed date that it may or may not attend oral proceedings amounts to an abuse of procedure
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
G 0004/92
T 0653/91
T 0930/92
Citing decisions:
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