T 0269/14 (Multidimensional layered FEC/FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT) of 03.04.2019
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T026914.20190403
- Date of decision
- 3 April 2019
- Case number
- T 0269/14
- Online on
- 9 April 2019
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 08773555.1
- IPC class
- H03M 13/03H04L 1/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Scalable information signal, apparatus and method for encoding a scalable information content, and apparatus and method for error correcting a scalable information signal
- Applicant name
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.07
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 123(2)
- Keywords
- Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes) - Catchword
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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 on the basis of the following documents:
- description: pages 1 to 37, filed on 1 February 2019;
- drawings: sheets 1/18 to 5/18, and 7/18 to 18/18, filed on 22 July 2008, and sheet 6/18, filed on 1 February 2019;
- claims: claims of the main request filed by letter of 26 February 2019,
with the proviso that the applicant be given the opportunity to:
- adapt the description by replacing for the cited documents on page 3,
"XP 11115753" by "Stankovic et al., 'Real-Time Error Protection of Embedded Codes for Packet Erasure and Fading Channels', IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 14, no. 8, 1 August 2004, pages 1064-1072" and
"XP011109134" by "Dumitrescu et al., 'Globally Optimal Uneven Error-Protected Packetization of Scalable Code Streams', IEEE transactions on multimedia, vol. 6, no. 2, 1 April 2004, pages 230-239", and
- add, in claim 6, the missing article "a" in front of the words "generator" and "protector", and
- delete the final letter "s" in each occurrence of the expression "in the second dimensions" in claims 8 and 9 (see section XI above).