| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T221508.20120322 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of decision: | 22 March 2012 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 2215/08 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 00110530.3 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C07C 51/43 C07C 57/10 |
||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
| Download and more information: |
|
||||||||
| Title of application: | Potassium sorbate granulate and production processes thereof | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | DAICEL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.10 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
| Relevant legal provisions: |
|
||||||||
| Keywords: | Main request: novelty (no) - prior use, namely sale of product having required Na content and overall pore volume sufficiently substantiated (yes); process step of "adjusting" certain parameters implicitly disclosed by sale of product having said parameters; purpose of the claimed process not a functional technical feature Auxiliary request 4: novelty (no) - use of a process for a particular purpose is nothing but that very same process Auxiliary requests 1 to 3 and 5 to 7: novelty (yes) - neutralisation step not disclosed by sale of product Auxiliary requests 1 to 3 and 5 to 7: inventive step (no) - obvious to neutralise with potassium hydroxide having low Na content in order to produce potassium sorbate having low Na content |
||||||||
| Catchwords: |
- |
||||||||
| Cited decisions: |
|
||||||||
| Citing decisions: |
|
||||||||
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t082215eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021