| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:1997:T060994.19970227 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 27 February 1997 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0609/94 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 83303373.1 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G02F 1/137 G02F 1/133 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Liquid crystal devices | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Asea Brown Boveri AG Philips Electronics N.V. |
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| Board: | 3.4.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Binding effect of an appeal decision (ratio decidendi) | ||||||||
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When, by decision of a Board of Appeal, the case is remitted to the first instance with the order to continue the procedure on the basis of a first set of claims, the first instance is not entitled to reject new claims merely by reference to said decision, when said new claims, while differing from said first claims, do not contravene the ratio decidendi of said decision. |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t940609eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021