European Patent Office

J 0004/80 (Examination of legal problems by a Board of Appeal) vom 17.09.1980

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:1980:J000480.19800917
Datum der Entscheidung
17. September 1980
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J 0004/80
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79301925.8
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Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
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Im Amtsblatt des EPA veröffentlicht (A)
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3.1.01
Leitsatz

I. Where the decision appealed interprets the Convention in a manner which a Board of Appeal considers to be incorrect, the Board, acting of its own motion, can hold the decision to be wrong and exercise a power within the competence of the department concerned, even though the appellant did not challenge the department's decision in that respect.

II. Correction of a request for grant by adding a designation of a State which was omitted from the request for grant by mistake may be allowed if satisfactory evidence is put before the Office (cf. Decision of 18 July 1980 in Case No. J 08/80).

Schlagwörter
Examination of legal questions
Legal questions
Competence/Exercise of power
Correction of errors
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ORDER

For these reasons, it is decided that:

1. The Decision of the Receiving Section of the European Patent Office dated 4 January 1980 is set aside.

2. It is ordered that the request for grant form filed on European patent application No. 79301925.8 is to be corrected by the addition thereto of the designation of the United Kingdom.