T 0576/97 of 04.03.1998
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1998:T057697.19980304
- Date of decision
- 4 March 1998
- Case number
- T 0576/97
- Online on
- 6 April 1998
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 90203138.4
- IPC class
- G02B 6/44
- 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
- Apparatus for introducing a cable into a cable guide tube
- Applicant name
- Koninklijke PTT Nederland N.V.
- Opponent name
- British Telecommunications public limited company
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (yes) after amendment
- 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 department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form as presented at the oral proceedings:
claims: 1. to 7, claim 1 including an additional correction by inserting "is" in the expression "which movably mounted" in the line commencing with "+ a piston (13)";
description: pages 2 to 5; and
Figure: 1.