T 1639/07 (E-mail printing apparatus/CANON) of 17.02.2012
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T163907.20120217
- Date of decision
- 17 February 2012
- Case number
- T 1639/07
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 01306755.8
- IPC class
- G06F 3/12G06F 17/60G06F 13/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- E-mail printing apparatus and method and E-mail printing program
- Applicant name
- CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (no)
- Catchword
- "An effect cannot be validly used in the formulation of the technical problem if the effect requires additional information not at the disposal of the skilled person even after taking into account the content of the application in question."(See point 2.5 of the reasons)
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.