T 0380/97 of 20.09.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T038097.19990920
- Date of decision
- 20 September 1999
- Case number
- T 0380/97
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 90117815.2
- IPC class
- F04B 49/06
- 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
- Electrohydraulic control of a hydraulic machine
- Applicant name
- Vickers Incorporated
- Opponent name
- Linde Aktiengesellschaft, Wiesbaden
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 108 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 64(b) 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of the appeal - yes
Inventive step - yes - Catchword
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- Citing cases
- -
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 30 filed in the oral proceedings,
- columns 1 to 6 of the description together with the supplement to be inserted in column 3 between lines 36 and 37, filed in the oral proceedings,
- columns 7 to 15 of the description as granted, as well as
- the figures as granted.