T 0788/96 (Passivation layer/ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES) of 22.09.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T078896.19990922
- Date of decision
- 22 September 1999
- Case number
- T 0788/96
- Online on
- 7 October 1999
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 88301637.0
- IPC class
- H01L 21/318
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Improved passivation for integrated circuit structures
- Applicant name
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - yes
- Catchword
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- Cited 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 the first instance to grant a patent on the basis of the following documents:
Claims: 1 to 10 filed with the letter of 19. January 1994 (the main request considered in the decision in suit);
Description: pages 1 to 5 and 10 to 22 as originally filed;
pages 6, 8, and 9 filed with the letter of 23 October 1992;
and page 7 filed with the letter of 19 January 1994
Drawings: sheets 1/2 and 2/2 as originally filed.