T 0635/98 of 16.07.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T063598.19990716
- Date of decision
- 16 July 1999
- Case number
- T 0635/98
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 83303373.1
- IPC class
- G02F 1/137G02F 1/133
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Liquid crystal devices
- Applicant name
- The Secretary of the State for Defence / GB
- Opponent name
- 01: Asea Brown Boveri AG
02: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. - Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 111(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Decision re appeals - ratio decidendi
Inventive step (yes) after amendment: non-obvious optimisation - 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 with claims 1 to 9, amended description and drawings as filed at the oral proceedings, whereby the following corrections are to be made:
- claim 1, line 27: "and it is switchable" to read "and being switchable";
- claim 1, line 30: "C" to read " C";
- page 2A, line 27 of the description: "and it is switchable" to read "and is switchable"; and
- page 2A, line 30 of the description: "C" to read " C".