T 0777/00 of 31.05.2001
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T077700.20010531
- Date of decision
- 31 May 2001
- Case number
- T 0777/00
- Online on
- 20 June 2001
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97108166.6
- IPC class
- F04D 29/66
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Centrifugal Fluid Assembly
- Applicant name
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Main request: clarity (no)
First auxiliary request: amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Second auxiliary request: inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following documents:
Claims: 1 to 8 of the second auxiliary request filed during the oral proceedings on 31. May 2001.
Description: pages 1, 1a filed with letter of 24. November 1998, page 1b filed with letter of 30 April 2001, pages 2, 4 to 6, 12, 14 to 16, 21 filed during the oral proceedings on 31 May 2001, page 3 as originally filed, pages 7 to 11, 13, 18 - 20, 22 filed with letter of 23 June 1998, and page 17 filed with letter of 13 March 2001.
Drawings: Figures 1 to 6 as originally filed, Figures 7 to 19 filed with letter of 23. June 1998, and Figures 20 to 23 filed during the oral proceedings on 31 May 2001.