| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T235712.20131128 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 28 November 2013 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 2357/12 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 01202177.0 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C04B 18/14 C04B 28/02 C04B 26/26 C22B 7/04 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Process for processing stainless steel slags | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Trading and Recycling Company Sint Truiden | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Harsco Minerals Canada Corporation | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.05 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Admissibility of opposition - transfer of opponent status (yes) - prerequisites and effects of universal succession Evidence - evaluation of evidence - probative force of private documents in inter partes proceedings Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no) |
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1."Universal succession" as an exception to Rule 22(3) EPC is a concept of procedural law under the European Patent Convention and is to be construed autonomously by the EPO, independent from national law [cf. reasons 7, 10 to 12]. 2. Under the case law of the Boards of Appeal, the main considerations for acknowledging that a universal succession has taken place are legal certainty as to the person of the successor and the need to avoid a legal vacuum [reasons 8, 9]. 3. Under that case law, the transfer of all assets of an enterprise, immediately followed by its dissolution as a legal entity, may constitute a universal succession [reasons 13 to 15]. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t122357eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021