T 0829/93 of 24.05.1996
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T082993.19960524
- Date of decision
- 24 May 1996
- Case number
- T 0829/93
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 84300452.4
- IPC class
- G02B 6/38
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Methods of making optical fibre terminations
- Applicant name
- BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
- Opponent name
- Philips Electronics N.V.
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100 1973European Patent Convention R 57(1) 1973European Patent Convention R 57a 1973European Patent Convention R 58(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of amendments in opposition proceedings (no) - a matter of discretion - objective judgment - new dependent claims not necessary or appropriate
- Catchword
- The necessity and appropriateness, and thus admissibility of amendments in opposition proceedings is not a question of subjective, but of objective judgment. It was objectively clear that new dependent claims did not have an influence on the characteristics of the invention as specified in Claim 1, and thus were not an adequate response to the attacks of the Opponents on the inventive step of the claimed subject-matter.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.