T 0925/21 (Automatic mode switching/STARKEY) of 08.02.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T092521.20240208
- Date of decision
- 8 February 2024
- Case number
- T 0925/21
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 15179091.2
- IPC class
- H04R 25/00G10L 21/0208
- 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
- Automatic directional switching algorithm for hearing aids
- Applicant name
- Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Opponent name
- GN Hearing A/S / Oticon A/S / Widex A/S
- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)
- Keywords
- Added subject-matter - all claim requests (yes)
- Catchword
- As to the proprietor's argument that the board should not question the compliance of its auxiliary claim requests with the EPC since the opponent had not challenged the admittance or the allowability of those auxiliary requests, see point
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The patent is revoked.