European Patent Office

T 0359/11 vom 13.05.2015

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T035911.20150513
Datum der Entscheidung
13. Mai 2015
Aktenzeichen
T 0359/11
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
08759496.6
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden verteilt (C)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND DELIVERING E-LEARNING TO HAND HELD DEVICES
Name des Antragstellers
Intuition Publishing Limited
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.4.03
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Amendments - consent of examining division (no)
Examination procedure - correct exercise of discretion (no)
Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features
Additional search
Remittal to the department of first instance
Orientierungssatz
Where the relevant search authority has stated, either in a search report or in a declaration that no search report will be established, that it is not necessary to cite any documentary evidence of the prior art on the grounds that all of the technical features of the claimed invention are notorious, it is always incumbent upon the examining division to consider whether an additional search is necessary. The criterion to be applied is that if the invention as claimed contains at least one technical feature which is not notorious, the application should normally not be refused for lack of inventive step without performing an additional search (see Reasons, point 3.9, and T 690/06, Reasons, point 8).
Zitierende Akten
T 2467/09T 0779/11

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 for further prosecution.