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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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: |
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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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