T 0097/98 (Spinning process/MINNTECH) of 21.5.2001

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T009798.20010521
Date of decision: 21 May 2001
Case number: T 0097/98
Application number: 92910588.0
IPC class: B01D 39/16
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 51 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: OJ | Published
Title of application: Fiber spinning process and product thereof
Applicant name: MINNTECH CORPORATION
Opponent name: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
Board: 3.3.05
Headnote: Correction of the name of the appellant to substitute a natural or legal person other than the one indicated in the appeal is allowable under Rule 65(2) EPC in conjunction with Rule 64(a) EPC, if it was the true intention to file the appeal in the name of said person and if it could be derived from the information in the appeal, if necessary with the help of other information on file, with a sufficient degree of probability that the appeal should have been filed in the name of that person (point 1 of the reasons).
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 107
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 100(b)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 R 64(a)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 65(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 26(2)(c)
Keywords: Admissibility of the appeal (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty and inventive step (yes)
Catchwords:

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T 0867/91
T 0340/92
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T 0920/97
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