| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T083415.20180419 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 19 April 2018 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0834/15 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 08158707.3 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C11D 3/22 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | D | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Laundry composition | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | The Procter & Gamble Company | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.06 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Proper construction of "either ... or" (Reasons, 2.3 ff.) Fresh ground for opposition raised by the Respondent (not considered) - no approval of the patentee Sufficiency of the disclosure (yes) Novelty - (yes) "extrinsic characteristic" (G 1/92) of an allegedly novelty-destroying commercial composition only accessible by subjecting said prior art composition to a kind of reverse engineering (by fractionation) based on hindsight (Reasons, 7) Inventive step - (yes) |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t150834eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021