T 0727/17 (Navigation through smartphone screens/APPLE) of 10.03.2022
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T072717.20220310
- Date of decision
- 10 March 2022
- Case number
- T 0727/17
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 11176480.9
- 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
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- Application title
- Incoming telephone call management for a portable multifunction device
- Applicant name
- Apple Inc.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(2)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - main and 1st auxiliary requests (no): obvious navigation through GUI windows of a smartphone
Admittance of new claim requests - 2nd to 5th auxiliary requests (no): at least not clearly allowable - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 1579/07
- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.