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EPO T 1718/23
Court
EPO Board of Appeal 3.5.01 (Munich)
Type of action
opposition appeal
Language
en
Claimant / applicant
- Nicoventures Trading Limited
Defendant / respondent
- Philip Morris Products S.A.
- Weickmann & Weickmann PartmbB
- Behrends, Frederik
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Decisions and documents (1)
- 2026-07-16appeal decision
Reimbursement of appeal fee (no; Reimbursement of appeal fee - procedural violation not substantial); Novelty - main request and auxiliary request 1 (no); Added subject-matter - auxiliary request 7 (yes - unallowable intermediate generalisation); Inventive step - auxiliary request 7A (yes; Inventive step - non-obvious simplification of electrical connections); Auxiliary requests 2 to 6 - amendment to the case (yes - re-ordering of requests on appeal) - admitted (no); Auxiliary requests 4A to 6A - admitted (no - should have been filed in first-instance proceedings)
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