European Patent Office

T 0744/99 (RDS radio system/BBC) du 15.01.2002

Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T074499.20020115
Date de la décision
15 janvier 2002
Numéro de l'affaire
T 0744/99
Requête en révision de
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Numéro de la demande
90900945.8
Classe de la CIB
H04H 1/00
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
Improvements to RDS radio system
Nom du demandeur
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Nom de l'opposant
Interessengemeinschaft für Rundfunkschutzrechte GmbH
Schutzrechtsverwertung & Co. KG
Chambre
3.5.01
Sommaire
-
Mots-clés
Entitlement to claimed priority - main request (no)
Inventive step - main request (no), first auxiliary request (yes)
Exergue
For the subject-matter of a claim to be derivable "directly and unambiguously, using common general knowledge, from the previous application as a whole" in accordance with opinion G 0002/98 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal, such subject-matter must not be novel with respect to the disclosure of the priority document. The application of common general knowledge can only serve to interpret the meaning of a technical disclosure and place it in context; it cannot be used to complete an otherwise incomplete technical disclosure (see point 4 of the reasons).
Affaires citées
G 0002/98T 0339/89
Affaires citantes
T 1150/00T 0030/01

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 as amended in the following version:

Claims 1 to 7 according to the first auxiliary request received during the oral proceedings, with description and drawings as granted.