T 2318/10 of 11.12.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T231810.20141211
- Date of decision
- 11 December 2014
- Case number
- T 2318/10
- Online on
- 16 February 2015
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 00307366.5
- IPC class
- H03M 13/41
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Methods and apparatus for representation of branch metrics in a communication system decoder
- Applicant name
- Lucent Technologies Inc.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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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 in the following version:
- description: pages 1, 2 2a, 3 to 16 filed in the oral proceedings of 11 December 2014;
- claims: 1 to 8 of the first auxiliary request filed with letter dated 11 November 2014;
- drawings: sheets 1/5 to 5/5 as originally filed.