T 0943/93 of 30.08.1994
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T094393.19940830
- Date of decision
- 30 August 1994
- Case number
- T 0943/93
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 85305572.1
- IPC class
- H01S 3/23
- 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
- Optical amplification
- Applicant name
- BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
- Opponent name
- Siemens AG
- Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty (yes): no inevitable working of the nearest prior art within the wavelengths region claimed
Inventive step (yes): non-obvious application of unforeseeable interdependence of parameters - Catchword
- A hypothetical possibility of operating within the claimed region per se is legally not sufficient to destroy the novelty of this region, in particular not if the skilled person has no technical motive and thus no practical necessity to work within this region (see paragraph 2.5, page 14).
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The Appeal is dismissed.