T 0462/96 of 04.02.1998
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1998:T046296.19980204
- Date of decision
- 4 February 1998
- Case number
- T 0462/96
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 89201390.5
- IPC class
- G02B 6/42
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Optoelectronic arrangement having a coupling between an optical transmission fibre and a semiconductor laser diode
- Applicant name
- Philips Electronics N.V.
- Opponent name
- Siemens AG
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 112(1)(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes, after amendment)
Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (no) - Catchword
- -
- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The opponent appellant's requests to the effect that two questions be referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal are rejected.
3. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents:
Claims 1 to 4 and pages 1 to 6 of the description as presented by the proprietor opponent at the oral proceedings, page 7 of the description filed with his letter of 6 February 1998, and Figures 1 to 3 as granted.