T 1225/04 (Intelligent Electrical Devices/AZOTEQ) of 21.12.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T122504.20071221
- Date of decision
- 21 December 2007
- Case number
- T 1225/04
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 99952050.5
- IPC class
- H05B 37/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- 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
- Intelligent electrical devices
- Applicant name
- Azoteq (Proprietary) Limited
- Opponent name
- Walz GmbH & Co.
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention R 57a 1973
- Keywords
- Amendments occasioned by grounds of opposition - no (main request)
Sufficiency - yes (auxiliary request)
Inventive step - yes (auxiliary request) - Catchword
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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 first instance department with the order to maintain the patent in the following version:
- Claims 1 to 9 as maintained by the opposition division in its interlocutory decision of 4 August 2004
- Claim 10 as filed during oral proceedings before the board
- Claims 11 to 15 as filed with letter of 14 December 2004, then designated "main request"
- Description columns 1, 2, 4 to 16 as maintained by the opposition division in its interlocutory decision of 4 August 2004
- Description column 3 as filed during oral proceedings before the board
- Figures 1 to 17 of the patent specification.