European Patent Office

T 1564/18 (Programmable memory repair scheme/RAMBUS INC.) vom 17.09.2021

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2021:T156418.20210917
Datum der Entscheidung
17. September 2021
Aktenzeichen
T 1564/18
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
09730954.6
IPC-Klasse
G11C 29/00
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
Nicht verteilt (D)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
Programmable memory repair scheme
Name des Antragstellers
Rambus Inc.
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.5.07
Leitsatz
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Relevante Rechtsnormen
European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 113(1)European Patent Convention R 103(1)(a)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 011
Schlagwörter
Right to be heard - substantial procedural violation (yes)
Orientierungssatz
Since neither the annex to the summons nor any of the previous communications of the examining division contained the essential legal and factual reasons leading to the finding in the appealed decision that claim 1 of the main request lacked novelty over the prior-art device considered for the first time in the novelty assessment of the refusal, and since no reason was given why the amendments made in advance of the oral proceedings held in absentia justified the change to this new closest prior art, the decision was issued in violation of the right to be heard even though the prior-art device on which the refusal was based was disclosed in the same document as a closest prior art considered previously in the examination procedure.
Zitierende Akten
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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 department of first instance for further prosecution.

3. The appeal fee is to be reimbursed in full.