T 0835/00 () of 7.11.2002

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T083500.20021107
Date of decision: 07 November 2002
Case number: T 0835/00
Application number: 94301107.2
IPC class: C08J 9/18
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: B
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Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Polypropylene resin expanded particles
Applicant name: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, et al
Opponent name: (01) BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen
(02) JSP Corporation
Board: 3.3.03
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
Keywords: Inventive step (yes) - determination of closest prior art - breadth of claim
Catchwords:

A fatal defect of the choice, as a starting point for the application of the problem/solution method, of a disclosure in the state of the art from which no relevant technical problem can be formulated without inappropriate hindsight is that, without such hindsight, any attempt to establish a logical chain of considerations which could lead to the claimed invention inevitably gets stuck at the start, for want of a relevant identifiable goal or object. If the relevant problem is not derivable, the measures for its solution are a fortiori not derivable. In other words, the invention is not obvious in the light of such art (cf. Reasons, point 4.4.5).

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