T 0022/99 of 15.05.2000
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T002299.20000515
- Date of decision
- 15 May 2000
- Case number
- T 0022/99
- Online on
- 17 July 2000
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 92911454.4
- IPC class
- G01J 3/44
- 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
- Confocal spectroscopy
- Applicant name
- RENISHAW plc
- Opponent name
- Carl Zeiss Jena 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 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty, inventive step (confirmed)
Clarity and admissibility of the amendments (third auxiliary request: 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 as amended in the following version:
Claims: 1 to 11 filed during the oral proceedings of 15 May 2000 as the third auxiliary request;
Description: pages 2 to 5 with the paragraph on page 2a to be inserted line 3 of column 2, all filed during the oral proceedings of 15 May 2000 as the third auxiliary request;
Drawings: as granted.