| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T035911.20150513 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 13 May 2015 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0359/11 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 08759496.6 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G09B 5/00 G09B 7/00 |
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| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND DELIVERING E-LEARNING TO HAND HELD DEVICES | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Intuition Publishing Limited | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.4.03 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Amendments - consent of examining division (no) Examination procedure - correct exercise of discretion (no) Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features Additional search Remittal to the department of first instance |
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Where the relevant search authority has stated, either in a search report or in a declaration that no search report will be established, that it is not necessary to cite any documentary evidence of the prior art on the grounds that all of the technical features of the claimed invention are notorious, it is always incumbent upon the examining division to consider whether an additional search is necessary. The criterion to be applied is that if the invention as claimed contains at least one technical feature which is not notorious, the application should normally not be refused for lack of inventive step without performing an additional search (see Reasons, point 3.9, and T 690/06, Reasons, point 8). |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t110359eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021