European Patent Office

T 0556/13 vom 14.10.2016

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2016:T055613.20161014
Datum der Entscheidung
14. Oktober 2016
Aktenzeichen
T 0556/13
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
98906460.5
IPC-Klasse
G01F 1/84
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden verteilt (C)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
CORIOLIS FLOWMETER HAVING AXIALLY COMPLIANT CASE ENDS
Name des Antragstellers
MICRO MOTION INCORPORATED
Name des Einsprechenden
ENDRESS + Hauser
(Deutschland) AG+Co.KG
Kammer
3.4.02
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Main request - novelty (no)
Auxiliary request 1 - request identical to request not admitted in first-instance proceedings - exceptionally admitted
Auxiliary request 1 - amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request 2 - amendments - extension of protection (no)
Auxiliary request 2 - correction of error - immediately evident that nothing else could have been intended (yes)
Auxiliary request 2 - amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request 3 - sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Auxiliary request 3 - novelty (yes)
Auxiliary request 3 - inventive step (yes)
Orientierungssatz
Discretion of a board of appeal to admit a request which was not admitted in the first-instance proceedings (see point 2.1)

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 maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents:

Claims: Nos. 1 to 16 of auxiliary request 3 filed with letter dated 13 September 2016;

Description: Pages 2 to 8 of auxiliary request 2 filed at the oral proceedings of 19 October 2012; and

Drawings: Figures 1 to 11 of the patent specification.