T 0673/08 (Touch interface with overlapping key areas/RIM) of 14.09.2011
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2011:T067308.20110914
- Date of decision
- 14 September 2011
- Case number
- T 0673/08
- Online on
- 25 November 2011
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 04251161.8
- IPC class
- G06F 3/033
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Text input system for a mobile electronic device and methods thereof
- Applicant name
- RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty and inventive step (yes - after amendment)
- Catchword
- -
- 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 department of first instance with the order to grant a patent based on claims 1 to 20 as submitted in the oral proceedings, and the description and drawings to be adapted.