T 1987/10 (Automotive shop service machine/SNAP-ON EQUIPMENT) of 25.01.2013
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T198710.20130125
- Date of decision
- 25 January 2013
- Case number
- T 1987/10
- Online on
- 4 March 2013
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 06016557.8
- IPC class
- G06F 9/445
- 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
- Method and apparatus for updating of software and/or collecting of operational data in a machine unit
- Applicant name
- Snap-on Equipment Srl a unico socio
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.06
- Headnote
- -
- 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:
Description:
pages 1 and 4, received with the notice of appeal,
pages 2, 3, 9, 10 and 12 to 14, as originally filed,
page 3a, received on 12 February 2010,
pages 5, 6, 11 and 17, received on 21 December 2012 and
pages 7, 8, 15 and 16, received in the oral proceedings on 25 January 2013.
Claims:
1 to 15, according to the main request received in the oral proceedings on 25 January 2013.
Figures:
Sheets 1 to 4, as originally filed.