T 0616/89 of 19.10.1990
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1990:T061689.19901019
- Date of decision
- 19 October 1990
- Case number
- T 0616/89
- Online on
- 19 November 1990
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 84201697.4
- IPC class
- G01N 1/12
- 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
- Measurement and/or sampling device for liquid metal and probe used thereby
- Applicant name
- Electro-Nite International N.V
- Opponent name
- 1)Thyssen 2) Ferrotron
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Auxiliary request : Inventive step yes
Amendment of claim not allowable - 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 Opposition division with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents of the auxiliary request of the Appellant:
- Claim 1 and the dependent Claims 2-15; - description pages 1-3, 3a and 3b filed with letter dated 10 September 1990, - description column 2, line 36-column 7, line 54 of the granted patent, - drawing sheets 1-3 of the granted patents, with the following amendments: - on page 3a of the new preamble, line 12, FR-A-1 413 653 should read FR-A-2 413 653, and - in the specification, the description of the drawings 3 and 4 and in the drawings, the Figures 3 and 4 should be deleted. - with the further amendments necessary to adapt the description and drawings to the text of the valid Claim 1.