T 0965/97 of 03.07.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T096597.20010703
- Date of decision
- 3 July 2001
- Case number
- T 0965/97
- Online on
- 1 August 2001
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 89308534.0
- IPC class
- G01N 21/89
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Monitoring systems and methods
- Applicant name
- Picker International, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Wessex Technology Opto-Electronic Products Limited
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (main request: no, 1st subsidiary request: 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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form as follows:
Claims: 1 to 5 of the respondent's first subsidiary request presented at the oral proceedings of 3 July 2001;
Description: to be adapted;
Drawings: as in the patent specification.