III. The appellant did not reply to the board's summons to oral proceedings dated 24 January 2013, wherein the board expressed the preliminary opinion that the subject-matter of claim 1 would lack novelty having regard to D1.
IV. Oral proceedings before the board took place on 17 April 2013. The appellant requested that the decision under appeal be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of claims 1 and 2 filed with letter dated 12 August 2009.
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