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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- Decision in English
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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
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (appellant's main and first auxiliary requests: no; second auxiliary request: yes)
- Catchword
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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.