T 0024/96 of 04.03.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T002496.19990304
- Date of decision
- 4 March 1999
- Case number
- T 0024/96
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 89103895.2
- IPC class
- F04D 19/04
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Turbomolecular pump and method of operating the same
- Applicant name
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, et al
- Opponent name
- Leybold Aktiengesellschaft
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention R 57a 1973
- Keywords
- Amendments in opposition proceedings - amendment by introducing new dependent claims - neither appropriate nor necessary - section V
Novelty and inventive step - yes - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 0829/93
- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent in the following version:
Claims: 1 to 6 filed during the oral proceedings of 4 March 1999
Description: columns 1 to 9 filed during the oral proceedings of 4 March 1999
Drawings: Figures 1, 2, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6 and 7 as granted.