T 1849/08 of 01.03.2012
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T184908.20120301
- Date of decision
- 1 March 2012
- Case number
- T 1849/08
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97308267.0
- IPC class
- H01L 29/739
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Semiconductor device and electric power conversion apparatus therewith
- Applicant name
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
Decisive for the information content of a prior art document is what a person skilled in the art reading the document would understand from it.
If to a skilled reader of a prior art document containing an isolated statement that a diagram in a figure is "not to scale", there is nothing in the figure itself or in the rest of the document supporting this statement, he would consider the statement to be made in error and disregard it.
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty (no) - main and first auxiliary request
Inventive step (no) - second to fifth auxiliary request - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.