T 0150/96 of 21.01.1998
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1998:T015096.19980121
- Date of decision
- 21 January 1998
- Case number
- T 0150/96
- Online on
- 5 March 1998
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 88307897.4
- IPC class
- H02K 7/04
- 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
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- Application title
- Rotor balancing
- Applicant name
- Copeland Corporation
- Opponent name
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - yes (after amendment)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
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- 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 department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent in the following version:
- Claims 1 to 5, filed with the letter of 18. December 1997;
- Columns 1 and 2 of the description filed in the oral proceedings of 21 January 1998;
Column 3 of the description of the patent specification;
- Drawings of the patent specification.