T 0492/92 (Liquid detergent compositions/ALBRIGHT & WILSON) of 18.1.1996

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T049292.19960118
Date of decision: 18 January 1996
Case number: T 0492/92
Application number: 85108260.2
IPC class: C11D 17/00
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
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Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Liquid detergent compositions
Applicant name: Albright & Wilson Limited
Opponent name: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
Colgate-Palmolive Company
PROCTER & GAMBEL E.T.C.
RHONE-POULENC CHEMIE
Unilever N.V.
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
Keywords: Amendment allowable - implicit disclosure of a limiting functional feature
Sufficiency acknowledged - no necessity to specify one of the several available analytical methods
Inventive step (yes) - non-obvious improvement
Amendments - added subject matter (no)
Disclosure - sufficiency - measuring method
Inventive step (yes)
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 0378/97
T 0960/98
T 0485/00
T 0619/00
T 0466/05
T 2403/11

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