| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T049499.20030219 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 19 February 2003 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0494/99 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 92307118.7 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | A23G 3/00 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Process for the production of hard candy | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | CERESTAR HOLDING BV | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | ROQUETTE FRERES, S.A. | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Admissibility of requests filed at oral proceedings (no) Novelty (yes): no suggestion in allegedly novelty-destroying citation to combine separate items belonging to different embodiments described in that citation Inventive step (no): comparative experiments are not suitable to demonstrate any of the alleged improvements associated with the claimed process; solution to the problem of providing an alternative process for the production of hard candy obvious in the light of the closest state of the art |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t990494eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021