| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T090800.20010111 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 11 January 2001 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0908/00 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 98304935.4 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G02B 6/16 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | C | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Method of writing short period reflective Bragg gratings using an amplitude mask | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Lucent Technologies Inc. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
| Board: | 3.4.02 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Missing statement of grounds | ||||||||
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Summary of Facts and Submissions
I. The appeal contests the decision of the Examining Division of the European Patent Office dated 27 March 2000 refusing the European patent application. The Appellant filed a notice of appeal by letter received on 13 May 2000 and paid the fee for appeal on 11 May 2000. No Statement of Grounds was filed. The notice of appeal contains nothing that could be regarded as a Statement of Grounds pursuant to Article 108 EPC.
II. By a communication dated 18 September 2000 sent by registered letter with advice of delivery, the Registry of the Board informed the Appellant that no Statement of Grounds has been filed and that the appeal could be expected to be rejected as inadmissible. The Appellant was invited to file observations within two months.
III. No answer has been given to the Registry's communication.
Reasons for the Decision
As no written statement setting out the grounds of appeal has been filed, the appeal has to be rejected as inadmissible (Article 108 EPC in conjunction with Rule 65(1) EPC).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is rejected as inadmissible.
