T 0665/13 of 19.06.2018
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T066513.20180619
- Date of decision
- 19 June 2018
- Case number
- T 0665/13
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 05768370.8
- IPC class
- G02B 19/00H01L 21/027G03F 7/20
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Illumination optical apparatus, method of adjusting the illumination optical apparatus, exposure system and method
- Applicant name
- Nikon Corporation
- Opponent name
- Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Inventive step - after amendment
Inventive step - (yes) - Catchword
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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 maintain the patent as amended in the following version:
Description:
pages 3-6,10-15 of the patent specification,
pages 2,7,8,9 as filed in the oral proceedings before the Board;
Claims:
Claims 1-27 of the forty-sixth auxiliary request as filed with letter dated 2 October 2013;
Drawings:
Figures 1-14 of the patent specification.