| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1983:T011382.19830622 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 22 June 1983 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0113/82 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 79102637.0 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | - | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | - | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | IBM | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.2.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | If, in order to proceed from the known art to the invention one needs to take a series of steps and the last step is not proved to be known from the prior art nor is it derivable therefrom even though it appears at first sight to be a very simple one, the presence of an inventive step cannot in general reasonably be denied. | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Inventive step - series of steps Series of steps |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t820113ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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