T 1370/15 of 25.01.2021
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2021:T137015.20210125
- Date of decision
- 25 January 2021
- Case number
- T 1370/15
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 09168309.4
- IPC class
- H04N 5/46H04N 5/445H04N 5/50
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- 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
- Broadcast processing apparatus and control method thereof
- Applicant name
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Opponent name
- Interessengemeinschaft für Rundfunkschutzrechte e.V.
- Board
- 3.5.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 114(1) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 54 (2007)European Patent Convention Art 56 (2007)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(2) (2020)
- Keywords
- Novelty - main and auxiliary requests (yes)
Inventive step - main and auxiliary requests (no)
Inventive step - introduction of new ex officio common general knowledge (yes, to the extent that the board is knowledgeable from its experience) - Catchword
- Not only in ex parte-, but also in inter partes appeal proceedings, a board is allowed to introduce new ex officio common general knowledge without evidence of such knowledge which prejudices maintenance of the patent, to the extent that the board is knowledgeable in the respective technical field from the experience of its members working on cases in this field. (See Reasons, point 5.3)
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The request for referral of a question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal is refused.
2. The appeal is dismissed.