G 0002/95 (Replacement of application documents) of 14.5.1996

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1996:G000295.19960514
Date of decision: 14 May 1996
Case number: G 0002/95
Referral: J 0021/94
Application number: 89118789.0
IPC class: C25D 3/38
Language of proceedings: DE
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Title of application: -
Applicant name: ATOTECH
Opponent name: -
Board: EBA
Headnote: The point of law referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal is to be answered as follows:
The complete documents forming a European patent application, that is the description, claims and drawings, cannot be replaced by way of a correction under Rule 88 EPC by other documents which the applicants had intended to file with their request for grant.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 14(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 14(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 80(d)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 87(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 100(c)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 138(1)(c)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 164(2)
Paris Convention Art 4a(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 88
Patent Cooperation Treaty R 91(1)(c)
Keywords: Substitution of complete documents forming an application by other documents by way of a correction under Rule 88 EPC (no)
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Cited decisions:
G 0003/89
G 0011/91
J 0021/85
T 0726/93
Citing decisions:
J 0021/94
J 0026/96
J 0005/06
J 0016/13
T 0382/94
T 1056/96
T 0276/97
T 0903/97
T 0991/99
T 1008/99
T 1169/00
T 0028/02
T 0419/02
T 0723/02
T 0061/03
T 0991/04
T 1931/13
T 1963/17
T 1063/18

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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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