T 1849/08 () of 1.3.2012

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T184908.20120301
Date of decision: 01 March 2012
Case number: T 1849/08
Application number: 97308267.0
IPC class: H01L 29/739
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
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Decision text in EN (PDF, 48 KB)
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Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Semiconductor device and electric power conversion apparatus therewith
Applicant name: Hitachi, Ltd.
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.4.03
Headnote: Decisive for the information content of a prior art document is what a person skilled in the art reading the document would understand from it.
If to a skilled reader of a prior art document containing an isolated statement that a diagram in a figure is "not to scale", there is nothing in the figure itself or in the rest of the document supporting this statement, he would consider the statement to be made in error and disregard it.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
Keywords: Novelty (no) - main and first auxiliary request
Inventive step (no) - second to fifth auxiliary request
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 1517/11

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