| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1997:T062696.19970110 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 10 January 1997 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0626/96 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 90916513.6 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | F16K 11/20 E03C 1/02 E03B 7/07 C02F 9/00 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Water tap | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | AVILION LIMITED | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.2.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Inventive step (yes) Commercial success as a secondary indicator of inventive step Success achieved in a very short space of time after the appellant's invention Success directly attributable to the structure of the product claimed Period of nearly 60 years between the publication date of the closest prior art document and the filing date of the patent application in suit regarded as a further secondary indicator of inventive step |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t960626eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021