T 0712/91 of 24.02.1993
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1993:T071291.19930224
- Date of decision
- 24 February 1993
- Case number
- T 0712/91
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 83304301.1
- IPC class
- H01L 23/14
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Substrate for semiconductor apparatus
- Applicant name
- Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited
- Opponent name
- Metallwerk Plansee GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 113 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step- seventh auxiliary request (yes)
Basis of decision - opportunity to comment (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 0176/84
- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
1. The decision of the Opposition Division dated 16 July 1991 is set aside.
2. The Appellant's main and first to sixth auxiliary requests are rejected.
3. The case is remitted to the Opposition Division with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the new pages of description 2 to 4 which were filed during oral proceedings on 24 February 1993 and of the new Claims 1 to 3 forming the seventh auxiliary request filed on 20 March 1993.