T 0174/99 of 23.07.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T017499.20020723
- Date of decision
- 23 July 2002
- Case number
- T 0174/99
- Online on
- 28 August 2002
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 94919395.7
- IPC class
- H01L 21/48
- 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
- Method for providing electrical interconnections between adjacent circuit board layers of a multi-layer circuit board
- Applicant name
- MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty (yes) (claimed features not directly and unambiguously derivabled from the closest prior art)
Inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following patent application documents:
Description:
Pages 2, 4, 7, 10 and 13 as filed;
Page 3b as filed with letter dated 30 December 1998;
Pages 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 and 12 as filed with letter dated 13. January 1998;
Pages 3a, 5, 11 and 14 filed during the oral proceedings;
Claims:
Nos 1 to 9 filed during the oral proceedings;
Drawings:
Sheets 1/5 to 5/5 as filed.