T 0904/97 du 21.10.1999
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T090497.19991021
- Date de la décision
- 21 octobre 1999
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0904/97
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 93110200.8
- Classe de la CIB
- G03G 15/00
- 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
- Apparatus for forming an image on a record medium
- Nom du demandeur
- Seiko Epson Corporation
- Nom de l'opposant
- Canon Inc.
- Chambre
- 3.4.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 100(c) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 76(1) 1973European Patent Convention R 25 1973
- Mots-clés
- Division of a divisional application
Benefit of the filing date of the grandparent application (no)
Patentability (no) - Exergue
- 1. Since both the divisional application for which the patent in suit is granted and the parent application comprise subject-matter extending beyond the content of the grandparent application as originally filed, the second-generation patent cannot possibly benefit from the filing date of the grandparent application, the publication of which therefore belongs to the prior art under Article 54(2) EPC.
2. Thus there was no need for the Board in the present circumstances to further investigate the issues of the admissibility of sequences of divisional applications and of their proper handling, which therefore could be left open (point 2 of the Reasons).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The European patent No. 0 562 648 is revoked.