| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1997:T025395.19971217 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 17 December 1997 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0253/95 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 85105602.8 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C08F 279/04 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Modified impact-resistant vinyl-aromatic polymers | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Montedison S.p.A. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.03 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Grounds of opposition - board as well as opponent entitled to raise new arguments based on grounds, facts and evidence already present in the proceedings Amendments - added subject-matter (main and first auxiliary requests: yes; second auxiliary request: no) Inventive step - (yes) no incentive to combine unobvious features |
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Alerting a party to a possible argument against him and on a ground on which the burden of proof rests on him, in advance of the oral proceedings, would amount to a clear violation of the principle of impartiality, irrespective of the fact that the communication setting out such an argument would also be sent to the other party. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t950253eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021