T 0393/94 (Sunken field oxide/PHILIPS) of 08.07.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T039394.19990708
- Date of decision
- 8 July 1999
- Case number
- T 0393/94
- Online on
- 4 October 1999
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 89200845.9
- IPC class
- H01L 21/76
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a silicon substrate with fully or partly sunken field oxide regions
- Applicant name
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- -
- Citing cases
- T 0753/96
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the Examining Division with the order to grant a patent on the basis of claims 1 and 2 submitted during oral proceedings as auxiliary request and the description and drawings to be adapted to the claims.