T 0241/10 of 07.05.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T024110.20140507
- Date of decision
- 7 May 2014
- Case number
- T 0241/10
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 03075061.6
- 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
- Program reception/execution apparatus that can commence execution of a machine program having only received the program in part.
- Applicant name
- Panasonic Corporation
- Opponent name
- Interessengemeinschaft
für Rundfunkschutzrechte e.V. (IGR e.V.) - Board
- 3.5.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 101(3)(b)European Patent Convention Art 56 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
- Keywords
- Admissibility of a document filed with the statement of grounds of appeal (yes)
Inventive step - (no) - Catchword
- The board has no power under Article 12(4) RPBA to hold a document filed with the statement of grounds of appeal inadmissible if the filing of that document was a legitimate reaction to the submission of amended claims by the patent proprietor shortly before the first-instance oral proceedings and the opponent could not have been reasonably expected to present that document in the proceedings before the opposition division (see points 2 to 7).
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The patent is revoked.