T 0140/88 of 13.02.1990
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1990:T014088.19900213
- Date of decision
- 13 February 1990
- Case number
- T 0140/88
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 80304272.0
- IPC class
- A61N 1/36H03K 17/90
- 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
- Pacemaker with Hall effect element
- Applicant name
- Medtronic, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Biotronik Meßgeräte
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Clarity of the claims (main and first auxiliary
request - no - Inventive step (second auxiliary
request - yes - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 maintain the patent according to Respondent's second auxiliary request, i.e. on the basis of the following documents:
- description, columns 1 and 2 presented at the oral proceedings and column 3, line 1 to column 18, line 40 as granted;
- Claims 1 and 5 presented at the oral proceedings and Claims 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 as granted;
- drawings as granted.