T 0990/07 du 23.02.2010
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2010:T099007.20100223
- Date de la décision
- 23 février 2010
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0990/07
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 04255379.2
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Portable terminal apparatus
- Nom du demandeur
- FUJITSU LIMITED
- Nom de l'opposant
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- Chambre
- 3.4.01
- Sommaire
The purpose of the "examples" evoked in Rule 27(1)(e) EPC 1973 appears primarily to be to complete an otherwise incomplete teaching. As a consequence, the application cannot be refused under this provision if the description is considered to describe, despite the presence of erroneous drawings and the resulting lack of examples actually embodying the invention, "one way of carrying out the invention" (cf. point 3).
- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention R 27(1)(e) 1973
- Mots-clés
- Sufficiency of disclosure despite the absence of examples embodying the invention (yes)
Intermediate generalisation (allowable)
Clarity (yes)
Novelty -inventive step (yes) - Exergue
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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 examining division with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the appellant's main request, i.e.:
- claims: 1-5 as approved by the appellant (cf. annex to the attendance note about a phone conversation held on 29 January 2010).
- description pages: 1-14 as approved by the appellant (cf. annex to the attendance note about a phone conversation held on 29 January 2010).
- drawing sheets 1/9 - 9/9 as originally filed.