European Patent Office

T 0022/81 (Ignition system) of 07.02.1983

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:1983:T002281.19830207
Date of decision
7 February 1983
Case number
T 0022/81
Petition for review of
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Application number
79300291.6
IPC class
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Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
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Applicant name
Lucas
Opponent name
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Board
3.2.01
Headnote

If the applicant declares in the course of the procedure that certain claimed features are not intended to provide an inventive step, then these features and any advantages resulting therefrom can be disregarded in assessing the inventive step and investigation as to nonobviousness can be confined to the remaining features of the claim.

Keywords
Inventive step - limitation admitted
Inventive step - features not intended to provide inventive step
Catchword
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Cited cases
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ORDER

For these reasons, it is decided that:

The appeal against the decision of the Examining Division of the European Patent Office dated 25 February 1981 is rejected.