T 0603/04 of 25.09.2006
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T060304.20060925
- Date of decision
- 25 September 2006
- Case number
- T 0603/04
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 96305828.4
- IPC class
- G01B 11/06
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- System for determining the thickness and index of refraction of a film
- Applicant name
- Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 109(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 113(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 113(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 67 1973European Patent Convention R 68(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes)
Reimbursement of appeal fee (no: no substantial procedural violation) - refusal decision following re-opening and continuation of proceedings after interlocutory revision of a previous refusal decision tainted by a substantial procedural violation and reimbursement of the appeal fee; decision raising essentially the same substantive issues as the previous decision: ultra vires (no) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- J 0032/95T 0139/87T 0047/90T 0691/91T 0219/93T 0647/93T 0808/94T 0919/95T 0939/95T 0016/96T 0142/96T 0677/97T 0685/98T 1203/02T 0861/03T 1356/05
- 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 first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following application documents:
- claims 1 to 8 as filed with the letter dated 13 July 2006,
- description pages 6 and 7 as originally filed, pages 3A and 9 as filed with the letter dated 24 August 2001, and pages 1 to 3, 3B, 4, 5 and 8 as filed with the letter dated 5 July 2006, and
- drawing sheets 1/5 to 5/5 as originally filed.
3. The request for reimbursement of the appeal fee is refused.