G 0004/93 (Non-appealing party) of 14.7.1994

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1994:G000493.19940714
Date of decision: 14 July 1994
Case number: G 0004/93
Referral: T 0488/91
Application number: 82903018.8
IPC class: H04N 5/04
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 647 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Published
Title of application: Vertical sync counter with automatic recognition of TV line standard
Applicant name: Motorola, Inc.
Opponent name: N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken
Interessengemeinschaft für Rundfunkschutzrechte E.V.
Board: EBA
Headnote: I. If the patent proprietor is the sole appellant against an interlocutory decision maintaining a patent in amended form, neither the Board of Appeal nor the non-appealing opponent as a party to the proceedings as of right under Article 107, second sentence, EPC, may challenge the maintenance of the patent as amended in accordance with the interlocutory decision.
II. If the opponent is the sole appellant against an interlocutory decision maintaining a patent in amended form, the patent proprietor is primarily restricted during the appeal proceedings to defending the patent in the form in which it was maintained by the Opposition Division in its interlocutory decision. Amendments proposed by the patent proprietor as a party to the proceedings as of right under Article 107, second sentence, EPC, may be rejected as inadmissible by the Board of Appeal if they are neither appropriate nor necessary.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 101(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 107
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 111
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 114(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 58(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 64(b)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 65(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 66(1)
Keywords: Reformation in peius
Patent maintained in amended form in accordance with auxiliary request
Opposing parties each adversely affected
Appeal by one party
Requests by a non-appealing party which go beyond the appellants requests in the Notice of Appeal
Minority opinion
Catchwords:

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