European Patent Office

T 0272/06 of 17.10.2007

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T027206.20071017
Date of decision
17 October 2007
Case number
T 0272/06
Online on
23 October 2007
Petition for review of
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Application number
99310470.2
IPC class
G02F 1/1335
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
Illumination apparatus and projection apparatus
Applicant name
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Opponent name
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Board
3.4.02
Headnote
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Keywords
Novelty and inventive step (yes - amended claims)
Catchword
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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 department of first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following application documents:

- claim 1 (part) on page 38 filed with the letter dated 6 September 2007, claim 1 (part) on page 39 labelled "auxiliary request" filed with the letter dated 16 February 2006, claim 1 (part) together with claims 2 and 3 and claim 4 (part) on page 40 labelled "auxiliary request" filed with the letter dated 6 September 2007, and claim 4 (part) together with claims 5 to 7 on page 41 labelled "auxiliary request" filed with the letter dated 16 February 2006;

- description pages 2 to 4, 18 to 21, 23, 24, 26 to 30, 32 and 34 to 37 as originally filed, pages 1, 5, 6, 17, 22, 25 and 31 filed with the letter dated 17 August 2005, pages 6a, 6b, 7 and 16 labelled "auxiliary request" filed with the letter dated 16 February 2006, and page 33 filed with the letter dated 6 September 2007, pages 8 to 15 as originally filed being cancelled; and

- drawing sheets 1/11 to 11/11 as originally filed.