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Date of decision
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18 October 1994
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Case number
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T 0133/92
- 3.3.1
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Application number
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86200688.9
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Title of the application
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P-sulphophenyl alkyl carbonates and their use as bleaching
activators
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Applicant name
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Akzo Nobel N.V.
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Opponent name
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Unilever PLC/Unilever N.V.
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Keywords
Novelty (no; for main and first auxiliary request) - selection
of a group of compounds
Novelty (yes; second auxiliary request) - selection of
individualised compounds
Inventive step (yes)
Right to be heard (yes) - decision based on new claims filed
during oral proceedings at which the Opponent was not
represented
Not new fact: G 4/92 distinguished
Principle of legal certainty: Art. 125 EPC
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Catchwords:
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A claimed group of compounds essentially resulting from omitting
those parts of a larger group of compounds which a skilled
person would have immediately considered as being less
interesting than the rest, cannot be selectively novel.
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