T 0916/98 of 01.12.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T091698.19991201
- Date of decision
- 1 December 1999
- Case number
- T 0916/98
- Online on
- 31 January 2000
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91300705.0
- 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
- Air flow rate measuring device for an internal combustion engine
- Applicant name
- Hitachi, Ltd., et al
- Opponent name
- Robert Bosch GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step (main request, auxiliary requests 1 and 2: no)
Claims - support by description (auxiliary request 3: no)
Novelty and inventive step (auxiliary request 4: yes) - 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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of auxiliary request 4 (claims 1 to 15), with the description to be adapted and the drawings as granted.