| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T013400.20030905 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 05 September 2003 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0134/00 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 93902205.9 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C10L 1/14 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Additives and fuel compositions | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Exxon Mobil Chemical Patents Inc. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Clariant GmbH | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.06 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Novelty (main request) - no Novelty (first auxiliary request) - yes Reformulation of the technical problem - necessary: available experimental evidence not making credible the presence of an unexpected improvement for all the possible combinations of components encompassed by claim 1 Inventive step (first auxiliary request) - no: provision of an alternative: obvious to try Admissibility of an amendment (second auxiliary request) - no: superflous amendment which does not arise from any of the grounds for opposition |
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Disclaimer (originally disclosed) relating to the components of a fuel additive is not limiting the scope of a claim to a fuel comprising this additive (points 1.2.1 and 1.2.2) |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t000134eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021