T 0909/03 () of 1.2.2005 | XEPC: EPC and PCT resource

European Case Law Identifier:

ECLI:EP:BA:2005:T090903.20050201

Date of decision:

01 February 2005

Case number:

T 0909/03

Application number:

94202841.6

IPC class:

B29D 30/30

Language of proceedings:

Distribution:

Download and more information:

Decision text in EN (PDF, 88Â KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in:	EN
Versions:	Unpublished

Title of application:

Method for adjusting a side of a strip of flexible material to a reference side and apparatus for feeding a belt strip on a rotating building drum

Applicant name:

VMI EPE HOLLAND B.V.

Opponent name:

Thyssen Krupp AG

Board:

3.2.05

Headnote:

Relevant legal provisions:

European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 R 57a

Keywords:

Substantial procedural violation (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Allowability of amendments (first and second auxiliary requests, yes)
Novelty (main request and first auxiliary request, no; second auxiliary request, yes)
Inventive step (second auxiliary request, yes)

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Cited decisions:

T 0937/00
T 0181/02

Citing decisions:

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t030909eu1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021