T 0589/99 of 03.12.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T058999.20021203
- Date of decision
- 3 December 2002
- Case number
- T 0589/99
- Online on
- 10 February 2003
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 88103367.4
- IPC class
- H01L 39/24
- 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
- Films of high Tc oxide superconductors and method for making the same
- Applicant name
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Opponent name
- Siemens AG
- Board
- 3.4.03
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(b) 1973
- Keywords
- Main and first auxiliary request - disclosure not sufficient to carry out the invention over the claimed range of composition
Second auxiliary request - sufficiency (yes)
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 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 claims 1 to 7 of appellant's auxiliary request 2 filed with letter dated 18 September 2002, with the description to be adapted.