W 0018/01 of 23.01.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:W001801.20020123
- Date of decision
- 23 January 2002
- Case number
- W 0018/01
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- PCT/US2000/14031
- IPC class
- G08B 21/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Infant and parent matching and security system and method
- Applicant name
- Elpas North America Inc.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- Patent Cooperation Treaty Art 34(3)(a)Patent Cooperation Treaty R 13(2)Patent Cooperation Treaty R 68(2)
- Keywords
- Lack of unity a posteriori - Invitation to pay additional fee - sufficiently reasoned (no)
- Catchword
- In raising an objection of lack of unity of invention, it is not sufficient to examine the common core of a group of inventions (see point 5). The fact that the IPEA referred to general knowledge without citing a specific prior art document does not relieve it of the obligation to consider the possible contribution that each of the claimed inventions makes over the prior art referred to by the IPEA (see point 7).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The refund of the additional examination fee and the protest fee is ordered.