European Patent Office

T 0315/97 vom 21.06.2002

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T031597.20020621
Datum der Entscheidung
21. Juni 2002
Aktenzeichen
T 0315/97
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
-
Anmeldenummer
86308961.1
IPC-Klasse
G02B 5/128
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden und -mitglieder verteilt (B)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
-
Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
Revêtement rétroréflecteur à lentilles encapsulées et méthode de fabrication
Name des Antragstellers
Minnesota Mining
Name des Einsprechenden
Nippon Carbide Industries Co.
Ltd.
Kammer
3.4.02
Leitsatz
-
Schlagwörter
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (no)
Proper construction of claim 1
Reformatio in peius (1st auxiliary request: no; 2nd and 3rd auxiliary request: inadmissible)
Orientierungssatz
A claim was directed to a method for manufacturing a product. The method comprised manufacturing conditions the presence or absence of which during manufacture could not be ascertained in a reliable and generally accepted way but could only be derived from a property observed on the obtained product.
For the purpose of establishing whether a method disclosed in a prior art document anticipated the claimed method, the Board construed the feature relating to the manufacturing conditions as if it defined the property observed on the obtained product (point 3.1 of the reasons).
Zitierte Akten
G 0001/99

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The patent is revoked.