| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2009:T065907.20090528 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 28 May 2009 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0659/07 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 99941416.2 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | F03D 11/00 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Lightning protection for wind turbine blade | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | LM GLASFIBER A/S | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Vestas Wind Systems A/S | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.2.04 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Patent maintained in amended form in accordance with auxiliary request Appeal by the patentee No evidence for substantial procedural violations; remittal to Opposition Division (no) Main and first auxiliary requests - added subject-matter (yes) Exception to the principle of prohibition of reformatio in peius (no); remittal (no) |
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If the patentee is the sole appellant, the patent as maintained by the opposition division in its interlocutory decision cannot be objected to by the Board of Appeal either at the request of the respondent/opponent or ex officio, even if the patent as maintained would otherwise have to be revoked on the ground that a feature present in both claim 1 as granted and as maintained amended introduces added subject-matter contrary to Article 123(2) EPC. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t070659eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021