T 1000/01 (Image decoding method/MATSUSHITA) of 08.10.2004
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2004:T100001.20041008
- Date of decision
- 8 October 2004
- Case number
- T 1000/01
- Online on
- 2 December 2004
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 98118076.3
- IPC class
- H04N 11/04
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Image decoding method and apparatus, and data recording medium
- Applicant name
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes, after amendment)
- Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a patent in the following version:
- claims 1 to 3 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- description: pages 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 20, 22 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- description: pages 1 to 5, 9, 12 to 16, 19, 21, 23 to 39 as originally filed;
- drawings: Figures 1 to 10(e) as originally filed.