T 0661/09 du 22.10.2013
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T066109.20131022
- Date de la décision
- 22 octobre 2013
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0661/09
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 97902876.8
- Classe de la CIB
- G02B 5/30
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents des chambres de recours (C)
- 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
- REFLECTIVE POLARIZERS HAVING EXTENDED RED BAND EDGE FOR CONTROLLED OFF AXIS COLOR
- Nom du demandeur
- MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- Nom de l'opposant
- Bismanns H.
- Chambre
- 3.4.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
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- Mots-clés
- Inventive step - (no) - obvious desiderata
- Exergue
- The only features distinguishing the claimed device from the closest prior art express no more than a set of desiderata, without any indication of a causal link between the desired properties and the constitution of the claimed device.
Insofar as the claim does not define any concrete measures on how to ensure that the claimed properties are effectively obtained, the claimed properties remain at an abstract or conceptual level.
Accordingly, the issue of inventive step boils down to the question of whether or not the skilled person, in view of the available prior art and his/her common general knowledge, would in an obvious way have envisaged the claimed set of desiderata.
See decision, point 2.1 (and point 2.7.2). - Affaires citées
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appeal filed by the patentee is rejected as inadmissible.
2. The decision under appeal is set aside.
3. The patent is revoked.