T 1132/98 of 25.10.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T113298.20001025
- Date of decision
- 25 October 2000
- Case number
- T 1132/98
- Online on
- 30 October 2000
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 91118672.4
- IPC class
- G11B 20/18
- 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
- Optical card reproducing apparatus wherein a data process is made during an access operation
- Applicant name
- Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Inventive step - yes
- Catchword
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- Cited 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 department of first instance with the order to grant a patent in the following version:
Claims: 1 to 9 faxed on 5 September 2000;
Description: pages 2 to 6 as originally filed;
pages 1, 7a, 10, 35 und 36 faxed on 5 September 2000;
pages 7, 8, 33, 34, filed 11 August 2000 with the letter dated 8 August 2000;
pages 9, 11 to 32 and 37 to 43 filed 22 November 1996 with the letter dated 18 November 1996;
Drawings: Figures 1 to 4, 6 to 8, 18 to 20, 22, 23 and 24a to 24f as originally filed.