T 0587/98 (Divisional claim conflicting with parent) of 12.5.2000

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2000:T058798.20000512
Date of decision: 12 May 2000
Case number: T 0587/98
Application number: 95100700.4
IPC class: G11B 11/10
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
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Versions: OJ | Published
Title of application: Use of a quasi-amorphous or amorphous zirconia dielectric layer for optical or magneto-otpic data storage media
Applicant name: Komag, Inc.
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.5.02
Headnote: There is no express or implicit provision in the EPC which prohibits the presence in a divisional application of an independent claim - explicitly or as a notional claim arrived at by partitioning of an actual claim into notional claims reciting explicit alternatives - which is related to an independent claim in the parent application in such a way that the 'parent' claim includes all the features of the 'divisional' claim combined with an additional feature.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 76
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 97(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 125
European Patent Convention 1973 R 67
Keywords: Independent claim of parent having the scope of a 'dependent' claim in relation to main claim of divisional - yes
No basis in EPC for refusing divisional in this situation
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 1163/97
T 0307/03
T 1391/07
T 1423/07
T 2461/10
T 1483/11
T 2563/11
T 0318/14

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t980587ex1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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