T 1917/22 of 18.06.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T191722.20240618
- Date of decision
- 18 June 2024
- Case number
- T 1917/22
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 10741835.2
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- DIFFRACTIVE TRIFOCAL LENS
- Applicant name
- The Arizona Board Of Regents On Behalf Of
The University Of Arizona - Opponent name
- Wrays Solutions Pty Ltd
Physiol - Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(1)European Patent Convention Art 54(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(2)
- Keywords
- Admittance of claim request filed after summons (yes), exceptional circumstances
Added subject-matter (no)
Clarity and sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty and inventive step (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- G 0003/14
- Citing cases
- -
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the patent as amended in the following version:
- Claims: No. 1 to 8 according to the seventh auxiliary request filed with the letter of 12 January 2024.
- Description: Pages 1 to 12 according to the fourth auxiliary request filed during the oral proceedings before the opposition division on 28 April 2022.
- Drawings: Pages 11 to 14 of the patent specification.