T 0001/81 (Thermoplastics sockets) of 4.5.1981

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1981:T000181.19810504
Date of decision: 04 May 1981
Case number: T 0001/81
Application number: 78300387.4
IPC class: -
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
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Decision text in EN (PDF, 533 KB)
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Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: OJ | Published
Title of application: -
Applicant name: AECI
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.2.02
Headnote: I. In assessing the state of the art, including a brochure and patent publications, the fact that the former was claimed to represent current actual practice was not decisive. In the art of jointing thermoplastics parts to form an end product, the teaching of accomplishing a homogeneously fused joint considered obvious from the prior art. Consideration of reversal of procedure with regard to steps in producing component parts in assessing inventive step.
II. In the case of independent claims for a product and a process, the patentability of one has no necessary influence on the patentability of the other.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 52(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 R 29(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 30
Keywords: Actual practice
Homogeneous fusing
Independent claims product/process
Inventive step (denied) - current actual practice
State of the art
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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 0169/88
T 0189/88
T 0475/93
T 0083/98
T 2165/10

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t810001ex1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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