T 1895/17 (Ring-shaped microphone indicator/Bosch) of 08.12.2020
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T189517.20201208
- Date of decision
- 8 December 2020
- Case number
- T 1895/17
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 05100490.1
- IPC class
- H04R 27/00
- 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
- Conference system
- Applicant name
- Robert Bosch GmbH
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 116(1) (2007)European Patent Convention Art 56 (2007)
- Keywords
- Oral proceedings before the board: held by videoconference upon request
Inventive step - all requests (no): mixture of technical and non-technical features
Inventive step - presentation of information - Catchword
- The mere presentation of a speaker's state by a microphone's light indicator to the audience of a conference system does not credibly assist a user in performing a technical task by means of a continued and/or guided human-machine interaction process within the meaning of T 336/14 and T 1802/13 and thus cannot bring about a
technical
effect (see points 4.4.2 to 4.4.4 of the Reasons). - Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.