T 0425/03 (Clipboard formats III/MICROSOFT) of 23.02.2006
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T042503.20060223
- Date of decision
- 23 February 2006
- Case number
- T 0425/03
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 00110654.1
- IPC class
- G06F 9/46
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Data transfer with expanded clipboard formats
- Applicant name
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 76(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention R 88 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10b
- Keywords
- Late-filed request responding to objections - admitted (yes)
Divisional application extending beyond parent application (no-after correction)
Method of operating a computer - excluded as being a computer program (no)
Novelty/inventive step (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 first instance with the order to grant a patent in the following version:
- claims 1 to 5 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- description: pages 1, 3, 5, 7 to 9 as originally filed;
- description: pages 2, 4, 6, 10 to 12 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- drawings: Figures 1 to 6 as originally filed.