T 0414/97 of 17.02.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T041497.19990217
- Date of decision
- 17 February 1999
- Case number
- T 0414/97
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 87308999.9
- 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
- Improved automatic rearview mirror system for automotive vehicles
- Applicant name
- Gentex Corporation
- Opponent name
- Murakami Kaimedo Co., Ltd.
- Board
- 3.2.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (main request, no; seventh auxiliary request, yes)
Reformatio in peius - first to fifth auxiliary requests inadmissible
Unallowable intermediate generalisation (sixth auxiliary request) - Catchword
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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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the following documents:
Claims: 1 to 21 according to the seventh auxiliary request,
Description: pages 2 to 17, 19, 21 to 32 according to the appealed decision with pages 18 and 20. as filed at the oral proceedings,
Drawings: as granted.