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Online on: 15.03.2018
| Board: 3.3.05
| Decision date: 14.11.2017
| Proc. language: EN
| IPC: B01D 29/01, B01D 46/24, B01D 46/52
| Application no.: 05798742

Keywords: Admissibility of appeal – (yes), Grounds for opposition – added subject-matter (yes), Late-filed request – addition of dependent claim to request held allowable by the opposition division, Late-filed request – request could have been filed in first instance proceedings (yes), Late-filed request – request amounts to an attempt to tidy up a request held allowable by the opposition division (yes), Late-filed request – admitted (no), Request held allowable by the opposition division and corresponding to requesting the dismissal of the opposing party’s appeal – no reason to hold inadmissible, Amendments – allowable (yes), Novelty – (yes), Inventive step – (yes)

Application title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WINDING A FILTER MEDIA PACK