T 1162/13 of 17.03.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T116213.20140317
- Date of decision
- 17 March 2014
- Case number
- T 1162/13
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 05109583.4
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- 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
- Lossless adaptive golomb/rice encoding and decoding of integer data using backward-adaptive rules
- Applicant name
- Microsoft Corporation
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83
- Keywords
- Amendments - intermediate generalisation (no)
Discretion to exercise power of department of first instance
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
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 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 in the following version:
Description
Pages 2 to 34 as originally filed,
Pages 1, 1a and 1b filed with letter dated 6 November 2012,
Claims
Nos. 1 to 4 filed as main request with letter dated 4 October 2012,
Drawings
Sheets 1/9 to 9/9 as originally filed.