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Date of decision
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23 March 2006
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Case number
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T 0072/04
- 3.3.06
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Application number
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96908411.0
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Title of the application
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Method and apparatus for heating and pressuring a fibre pulp
suspension during transportation to a bleaching reactor
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Applicant name
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Kvaerner Pulping AB
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Opponent name
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Sulzer Pumps Finland Oy
Andritz Oy
Metso Paper Sundsvall AB
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Keywords
Admissibility of new requests (yes) - amendments not changing the
scope of the claims as filed with the statement of grounds of
appeal and made in good faith to overcome objections raised
against the latter
Sufficiency (yes) - contradictory assertions of the parties;
benefit of doubt is given to patent proprietor
Inventive step (yes) - hind-sight analysis
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