| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2008:T110203.20080528 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 28 May 2008 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 1102/03 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 95114467.4 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G06F 17/60 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Computer system for data management and method for operating said system | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Citibank Aktiengesellschaft | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | Opponent 01: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG Opponent 03: Bayerische Vereinsbank AG Opponent 04: COMMERZBANK AG Opponent 05: csg Computer Services GmbH Opponent 06: Deutsche Bank AG Opponent 07: Deutsche Börse AG Opponent 08: DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank Opponent 09: UBS AG Opponent 11: TIBCO Inc. |
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| Board: | 3.5.01 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Postponement of oral proceedings (no - pre-booked holidays of a party outweighed by extraordinary organisational burden of the case) Inventive step (no) |
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The effort of postponing fixed oral proceedings until a date might be found which would suit numerous parties, the members of an extended Board, and the facility management of the European Patent Office, outweighs the effort of postponing or interrupting one representative's holiday booked to a destination within Europe. A strict standard has to be applied under these circumstances because a liberal approach might give rise to a series of postponements (point 2.1 of the Reasons). |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t031102eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021