| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1992:T058291.19921111 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 11 November 1992 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0582/91 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 85830011.4 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | F16D 55/02 F16D 65/02 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Friction pad assembly for use in a disc brake for vehicles | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Metal-Fren | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | 01 Teves GmbH 02 Textar GmbH |
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| Board: | 3.2.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Claimed priority allowable Independent claim combined with one feature of a dependent claim - no relationship with other features of the dependent claim - allowable Novelty (yes) Inventive step (yes) |
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A feature added to an independent claim after the priority date and not constituting an essential element of the invention but a voluntary limitation of the scope of that claim does not invalidate the priority claimed (point 3.1). One feature of a dependent claim can be combined with a preceding independent claim if there is clearly no close functional or structural relationship between the one feature of that dependent claim and its other features or between that one feature and the teaching of other dependent claims referred to in that dependent claim (point 2.2). |
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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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