T 1093/05 (Multiplier circuit/ INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES) of 13.06.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T109305.20070613
- Date of decision
- 13 June 2007
- Case number
- T 1093/05
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 97111341.0
- IPC class
- G06F 7/52
- Language of proceedings
- German
- Distribution
- Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
- Download
- Decision in German
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Verfahren und Schaltung zur Multiplikation eines Multiplikanden und eines Multiplikators nach dem Booth-Verfahren in iterativen Schritten
- Applicant name
- Infineon Technologies AG
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
If a grant decision is defective, the patent proprietor must consider carefully the nature of the defect and how it is best rectified. If it involves a substantial procedural violation, rectification is possible only on appeal. A request for correction under Rule 89 EPC can succeed only if it is clear that the examining division did not intend to grant the patent in that form - and also in what form it did intend to grant it (Reasons 12).
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 113(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 96(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 97(2) 1973European Patent Convention R 51(11) 1973European Patent Convention R 51(4) 1973European Patent Convention R 51(6) 1973European Patent Convention R 89 1973
- Keywords
- Interpreting a decision to grant a patent
Correction of a decision to grant a patent (no)
Amendments after the communication under Rule 51(4)EPC - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.