T 0089/90 (Toroidal transformer) of 27.11.1990
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1990:T008990.19901127
- Date of decision
- 27 November 1990
- Case number
- T 0089/90
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 81105435.2
- IPC class
- H01F 40/06
- Language of proceedings
- German
- Distribution
- Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
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- Applicant name
- Sprecher & Schuh
- Opponent name
- Siemens; Asea Brown Boveri AG
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
The EPO's established practice of delivering appealable interlocutory decisions under Article 106(3) EPC to maintain a patent as amended is both formally and substantively acceptable.
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 102(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 106(3) 1973European Patent Convention R 58(4) 1973European Patent Convention R 58(5) 1973
- Keywords
- Interlocutory decision under Article 106(3) EPC to maintain a patent as amended pursuant to Article 102(3) EPC (acceptable)
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appellants' requests, under point IX above, concerning the admissibility of the interlocutory decision are refused.
2. The decision of the Opposition Division of 28 November 1989 is set aside.
3. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order that the patent according to the respondents' (patent proprietors') main request be maintained and the relevant part of the description (column 1, lines 53-61) amended.