T 0473/07 (Scheduling system / HARRAH'S OPERATING COMPANY) of 30.11.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T047307.20071130
- Date of decision
- 30 November 2007
- Case number
- T 0473/07
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 01309351.3
- IPC class
- G06F 17/60G06F 17/32
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Automated service scheduling system
- Applicant name
- Harrah's Operating Company Inc.
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 108 1973European Patent Convention Art 122 1973European Patent Convention R 65(1) 1973European Patent Convention R 78(2) 1973European Patent Convention R 85 1973
- Keywords
- All due care taken by representative relying exclusively on a computer program for calculating the time limits for filing an appeal and the statement of grounds of appeal (no)
Re-establishment of rights (no)
Admissibility of appeal (no) - Catchword
- Relying exclusively on a time limit generated by a computer program and refraining even from a plausibility check does not meet the all-due-care requirement of Article 122(1) EPC (point 3.4 of the reasons).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The application for re-establishment is refused.
2. The appeal is rejected as inadmissible.