T 1323/04 of 29.11.2006
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T132304.20061129
- Date of decision
- 29 November 2006
- Case number
- T 1323/04
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 95117959.7
- IPC class
- G07B 17/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- 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
- Apparatus and method for detecting the position of an envelope in a mailing machine
- Applicant name
- Pitney Bowes, Inc.
- Opponent name
- NEOPOST LTD
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 57 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - reformatio in peius - (refused)
First auxiliary request - extension - (inadmissible amendment)
Second auxiliary request - inventive step (yes)
Lack of industrial application - (no) - 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 with the order to maintain the patent in amended form in the following version:
claims: 1 to 13 of the second auxiliary request filed in the oral proceedings;
description: pages 2, 5 and 10 filed in the oral proceedings; pages 3, 4, 6 to 9 of the version approved by the opposition division; and
drawings: figures 1 to 15 of the patent specification.