T 2368/13 of 11.02.2019
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T236813.20190211
- Date of decision
- 11 February 2019
- Case number
- T 2368/13
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 02028524.3
- IPC class
- H02M 3/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Voltage conversion system and method and recording medium
- Applicant name
- TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 82European Patent Convention Art 84
- Keywords
- Unity of invention - main request (no)
Unity of invention - aux. requests (yes)
Claims - all essential features
Claims - main request & aux. requests 1 to 3 (no)
Claims - aux. request 4 (yes)
Clarity - main request & aux. requests 1 & 2 (no) - aux. requests 3 & 4 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 4 (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- -
- Citing cases
- T 2645/18
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:
- claims 1 to 8 of the fourth auxiliary request as filed during the oral proceedings of 11 February 2019;
- description
- pages 1 to 7 of the fourth auxiliary request as filed during the oral proceedings of 11 February 2019 and
- pages 8 to 10 as originally filed;
- drawings pages 1 to 6 as originally filed, subject to a correction in Figure 5 [see paragraph 5.4 of the Reasons].