T 0197/99 of 11.04.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T019799.20020411
- Date of decision
- 11 April 2002
- Case number
- T 0197/99
- Online on
- 17 June 2002
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91101004.9
- IPC class
- G02B 23/00G02B 13/18G02B 3/08
- 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
- Optical element employing aspherical and binary grating optical surfaces
- Applicant name
- Hughes Aircraft Company
- Opponent name
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo K. K. - Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 111(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Main request and auxiliary request 1: inventive step - no
Auxiliary requests 2 and 3: remittal to first instance for further prosecution - Catchword
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- Cited 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 opposition division for further prosecution on the basis of auxiliary requests 2 and 3 (the main request and the auxiliary request 1 being rejected as not allowable).