T 0390/90 (Crystalline paper filler) of 15.12.1992

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1992:T039090.19921215
Date of decision: 15 December 1992
Case number: T 0390/90
Application number: 81306189.2
IPC class: D21H 5/18
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
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Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: OJ | Published
Title of application: Process for preparing and using a crystalline product
Applicant name: Josep Maria Gussinyer, S.A.
Opponent name: Conte, Pietro, avv.
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: An intervention under Article 105 EPC during appeal proceedings is not permissible, but is limited to opposition proceedings; interpretation of G 7/91 and G 8/91 (OJ EPO 1993,346, 356), see also T 27/92 (Referral published in OJ EPO 1993 705, pending under Ref. No. G6/93).
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 105
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 106(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 111(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 112(1)(a)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 114(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 66(1)
Keywords: Admissibility of intervention of an assumed infringer during appeal proceedings
Legal status of Boards of Appeal
Non- equivalence of appeal and opposition proceedings
Boards' freedom not to refer to Enlarged Board: procedural economy
Novelty (yes) - second document incorporated by reference into the primary document - no disclosure of a continuous process in the light of common general knowledge at the relevant publication date
Inventive step (yes) - onus of proof regarding disputed effects
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 0169/92
T 0281/03
T 1242/04
T 0365/05
T 1180/05
T 2255/15
T 0844/18

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