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Date of decision
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20 August 98
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Case number
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T 0570/96
- 3.3.3
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Application number
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89301185.8
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Title of the application
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Polymeric compositions and their production
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Applicant name
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Allied Colloids Limited
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Opponent name
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S.N.F. S.A.
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Keywords
Main request - change of category - refused
First, second and third auxiliary requests - filed late - not
clearly allowable
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Catchwords:
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The admissibility of late-filed requests depends upon the
general principle applied in case T 0153/85, that it is for the
public good that legal conflicts be brought to an early close.
Decision T 0153/85 was merely a specific application of that
principle, by providing for a stricter scrutiny for allowability
of all late filed requests: the later they are filed the more
clearly allowable they must be. At such a late stage all the
accumulated objections under the EPC must be taken into
account.
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