European Patent Office

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
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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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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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).