| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1993:T059590.19930524 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 24 May 1993 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0595/90 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 81303891.6 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C21D 8/12 H01F 1/16 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Grain-oriented silicon steel sheets having a very low iron loss and methods for producing the same | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Kawasaki Steel | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Nippon Steel Thyssen Stahl Ugine Aciers |
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| Board: | 3.2.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | 1. Observations submitted as filed after the "adjournment" of the oral proceedings, which means the closing of the debate (in French "prononcer la clôture des débats" and in German "die sachliche Debatte für beendet erklären") are disregarded by the Board unless it reopens the debate. The reopening depends on the Board's discretion (point 1 of the Reasons). 2. A product which can be envisaged as such with all the characteristics determining its identity including its properties in use, i.e. an otherwise obvious entity, may become non-obvious and claimable as such, if there is no known way or applicable (analogy) method in the art to make it and the claimed methods for its preparation are the first to achieve this and do so in an inventive manner (point 5 of the reasons). |
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| Keywords: | Method claim Inventive step (no) Product made by method also not inventive Basis of decision Right to be heard Oral proceedings |
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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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