T 0471/05 of 06.02.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T047105.20070206
- Date of decision
- 6 February 2007
- Case number
- T 0471/05
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 98932446.2
- IPC class
- G02B 13/08
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- An optical system restraining aberrations within the maximum imaging volume
- Applicant name
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., et al
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European 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 1973
- Keywords
- Entitlement to patent protection of a method of designing an optical system: main and first auxiliary requests (no: subject-matter for which protection is sought not confined to physical, technical implementations) - second auxiliary request (yes)
Novelty and inventive step - 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 first-instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following application documents:
- claims 1 to 14 of the second auxiliary request filed at the oral proceedings,
- description pages 1 and 4 to 14 as published and pages 2 and 3 filed with the letter of 21 December 2006, and
- drawing sheets 1/2 and 2/2 as published.