European Patent Office

T 0910/00 of 14.05.2003

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T091000.20030514
Date of decision
14 May 2003
Case number
T 0910/00
Online on
4 July 2003
Petition for review of
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Application number
92301476.5
IPC class
G03B 27/53
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
Imaging method for manufacture of microdevices
Applicant name
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Opponent name
ASM Lithography B.V./Carl Zeiss
Board
3.4.02
Headnote
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Keywords
Inventive step (appellant's main and first auxiliary requests: no; second auxiliary request: yes)
Catchword
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Cited cases
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Citing 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 department of the first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the appellant's second auxiliary request, i.e. with claims 1 to 4 and 35 of the main request, filed as first auxiliary request with the letter dated 9 May 2003, and the description and drawings to be adapted.