T 1146/97 (MPEG/AT&T) of 30.09.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T114697.20030930
- Date of decision
- 30 September 2003
- Case number
- T 1146/97
- Online on
- 17 October 2003
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 92310143.0
- IPC class
- H04N 7/13H04N 7/137H04N 7/133
- 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
- Adaptive coding and decoding of frames and fields of video signals
- Applicant name
- AT&T Corp.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty and Inventive step (main request) - (yes, after amendment)
- Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 grant a patent on the basis of claims 1 and 12 of the main request filed with letter dated 25 November 2002, the dependent claims, description and drawings to be adapted.