| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T013392.19941018 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 18 October 1994 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0133/92 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 86200688.9 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C07C 143/44 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | P-sulphophenyl alkyl carbonates and their use as bleaching activators | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Akzo Nobel N.V. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Unilever PLC/Unilever N.V. | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Novelty (no; for main and first auxiliary request) - selection of a group of compounds Novelty (yes; second auxiliary request) - selection of individualised compounds Inventive step (yes) Right to be heard (yes) - decision based on new claims filed during oral proceedings at which the Opponent was not represented Not new fact: G 4/92 distinguished Principle of legal certainty: Art. 125 EPC |
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A claimed group of compounds essentially resulting from omitting those parts of a larger group of compounds which a skilled person would have immediately considered as being less interesting than the rest, cannot be selectively novel. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t920133eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021