| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T092693.19961001 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 01 October 1996 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0926/93 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 85101372.2 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | H01S 3/0975 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Gas laser device | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Siemens AG | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.4.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | An opponent may only substantiate a ground of opposition against a single claim of each request on file. If he succeeds in establishing that a claim of each request is not allowable, the patent will be revoked. Thus an opponent is under no obligation to "overkill" requests put forward by the proprietor by substantiating grounds of opposition against more than one claim of such request. | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Main request: inventive step (no) First auxiliary request: not disclosed subject-matter Second auxiliary request: not admitted as belated and not clearly allowable |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t930926ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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