T 1870/16 (Synchronising PDCP operations I/HTC) of 13.07.2021
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2021:T187016.20210713
- Date of decision
- 13 July 2021
- Case number
- T 1870/16
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 12004151.2
- IPC class
- H04W 76/02
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Methods for synchronizing PDCP operations after RRC connection re-establishment in a wireless communication system and related apparatuses thereof
- Applicant name
- HTC Corporation
- Opponent name
- Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- BDS TBA 2021 Art 4(4)European Patent Convention Art 111(2) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 112(1)(a) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 116 (2007)European Patent Convention Art 56 (2007)European Patent Convention Art 76(1) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 87(1) (2007)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 2(1), 15a(2)
- Keywords
- "Mixed-mode" oral proceedings held without the consent of one party - stay of proceedings in view of G 1/21 (no)
Added subject-matter - main request (yes)
Referral to the Enlarged BoA - first auxiliary request (no): res judicata - not the same facts
Validity of priority claim - second and third auxiliary requests (no): no "same invention"
Inventive step - second and third auxiliary requests (no) - Catchword
- As to the application of the principle of
res judicata
, see point 4 of the Reasons.
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 decision under appeal is set aside.
3. The patent is revoked.