T 0588/96 of 26.03.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T058896.19990326
- Date of decision
- 26 March 1999
- Case number
- T 0588/96
- Online on
- 5 May 1999
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 87905393.2
- IPC class
- F02M 37/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Application title
- In-tank fuel pump assembly for fuel-injected engines
- Applicant name
- Whitehead Engineered Products, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Mannesmann VDO AG
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - yes
Interpretation by the patentee of an expression present in the granted claim - not based on the disclosure of the patent - section 3.3 - Catchword
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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 a patent in the following version:
Claims: 1, filed during the oral proceedings on 26. March 1999 (main request);
2. to 7 as granted.
Description: Columns 1 to 10 as granted.
Drawings: Figures 1 to 9 as granted.