| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2004:T001401.20041103 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 03 November 2004 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0014/01 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 91305515.8 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | C11D 3/00 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Process and composition for treating fabrics | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | UNILEVER PLC, et al | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | The Procter & Gamble Company | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.3.06 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Main request - (no): disclaimer aiming at removing overlap with a non accidental anticipation violates Article 123(2) EPC First and second auxiliary requests - (no): not novel |
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"The allegation that a teaching extracted from a prior art leads away from the invention implies that the skilled person has taken this prior art into consideration. For an anticipation to be accidental it is instead necessary that the skilled person would have never taken it into consideration. (item 1.6 of the reasons)" |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t010014eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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XGL H V 4.1 The subject-matter to be excluded is not disclosed in the application as originally filed (so-called undisclosed disclaimers)