T 0050/83 of 29.03.1989
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1989:T005083.19890329
- Date of decision
- 29 March 1989
- Case number
- T 0050/83
- Online on
- 18 April 1989
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 79301138.8
- IPC class
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- Language of proceedings
- English
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- Application title
- Method of processing image data
- Applicant name
- Xerox Corp.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- inventive step
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ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a European patent on the basis of the following documents:
(a) description, pages 1-7 filed on 25 February 1989 with the following amendments:
- page 1, between the definition of step (g) and the next line, insertion of "A method of this kind is disclosed in US-A-4 068 266."
- page 3, line 4, suppression of the spacing between "field" and "s";
- page 3, line 25, replacement of "interpolating" by "interpolated";
- page 3, deletion of the sentence commencing at line 28 and terminating at line 29;
- page 3, line 35, replacement of the reference "Ln-11" by "Ln-1";
- page 4, line 16, insertion of "1" between the first symbol "0" and the comma;
- page 5, line 3, insertion of "wide" between "pixel" and "block";
- page 5, line 14, replacement of the small "m" by a capital one in "memory";
- page 5, line 28, leave a spacing between "there" and "shown";
- page 5, line 29, replacement of the small "t" by a capital one in "the";
- page 6, line 10, insertion of "each block being two pixels wide. Clock signals 01'," between the comma and the conjunction "or";
- page 6, line 14, replacement of "wise" by "wide";
- page 6, line 36, deletion of "from a low of one pixel", and
- page 7, deletion of the sentence commencing at line 5 and ending at line 7.
(b) Claims 1 and 2 filed on 25 February 1989.
(c) Drawings, Figures 2, 5-11 of the published patent application, renumbered 1-8.