T 0746/22 of 06.02.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T074622.20250206
- Date of decision
- 6 February 2025
- Case number
- T 0746/22
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 11835736.7
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
- Abstract on Article 056 EPC
- Application title
- OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-SENSOR ENDOSCOPES
- Applicant name
- EndoChoice Innovation Center Ltd.
- Opponent name
- Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Inventive step - (no)
- Catchword
- In a claimed optical lens system comprising a plurality of lenses, it must be examined whether the feature distinguishing the claimed lens system over the prior art has a technical effect. If no effect beyond an arbitrary modification of the prior art lens system can be attributed to the distinguishing feature over the whole scope of the claim, the claimed lens system does not involve an inventive step. See Reasons, point 1.5.
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The patent is revoked.