T 0331/00 of 25.09.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T033100.20020925
- Date of decision
- 25 September 2002
- Case number
- T 0331/00
- Online on
- 18 October 2002
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 94912311.1
- IPC class
- H01R 43/042
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Tool for the contemporary crimping of a plurality of insulated wires in an electrical connector
- Applicant name
- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
- Opponent name
- The Whitaker Corporation
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention Art 123 1973
- Keywords
- Amendments - opposition proceedings - broadening of claim (after amendment, no)
Inventive step - yes - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent as amended in the following version:
claims 1 to 9 filed in the oral proceedings, description, columns 1 and 2 filed in the oral proceedings,
description, columns 3 to 5, drawings of the patent specification.