T 0526/98 of 16.05.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T052698.20020516
- Date of decision
- 16 May 2002
- Case number
- T 0526/98
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 88101405.4
- IPC class
- A61N 1/365
- 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
- Pacer with a hysteresis function
- Applicant name
- St. Jude Medical AB
- Opponent name
- BIOTRONIK Mess- und Therapiegeräte GmbH & Co Ingenieurbüro
Berlin - Board
- 3.4.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 108 1973European Patent Convention Art 114(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention R 64 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of the appeal (yes)
Novelty (no - main request)
Admissibility of late-filed documents (no)
Inventive step (yes - first auxiliary request)
Remittal for further prosecution (no) - 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 appellant's request for remittal to the first instance for further prosecution with respect to the respondent's first auxiliary request having regard to D5 is rejected.
3. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the respondent's first auxiliary request, as follows:
Claim 1 filed in the oral proceedings on 16 May 2002;
Page 2, 2a of the description filed in the oral proceedings on 16 May 2002,
Pages 3 to 6 of the patent specification;
Sheet 1/1 of the patent specification.