T 2020/13 () of 12.10.2017

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T202013.20171012
Date of decision: 12 October 2017
Case number: T 2020/13
Application number: 04025047.4
IPC class: C08G 18/18
C08G 18/76
C08G 18/66
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: D
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 632 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Catalyst blends for producing low thermal desorption polyurethane foams
Applicant name: Evonik Degussa GmbH
Opponent name: Huntsman International LLC
Board: 3.3.03
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention Art 54
European Patent Convention Art 56
Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)
Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
Keywords: Novelty in view of combination of compounds defined by their trade names (no) (main request)
Novelty - availability to the public of the products defined by those trade names
Late filed experimental reports allowed (no) - Board's communication and assignement of patent are no appropriate justification for late submission
Inventive step (no) (first auxiliary request)
Inventive step - alleged improvement not shown over the whole breadth of the claim arbitrary reference example used for comparison - obvious solution
Late filed additional auxiliary requests not addmited
Catchwords:

-

Cited decisions:
G 0001/92
T 0939/92
T 0786/00
T 0890/02
T 1440/08
Citing decisions:
-

11 references found.

Click X to load a reference inside the current page, click on the title to open in a new page.

EPC Articles

Case Law Book: I Patentability

Case Law Book: III Amendments

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

General Case Law