T 0025/06 (Botulinum toxin/SOLSTICE NEUROSCIENCES) of 10.10.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T002506.20071010
- Date of decision
- 10 October 2007
- Case number
- T 0025/06
- Online on
- 12 December 2007
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 99945649.4
- IPC class
- A61K 38/16
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Stable liquid formulations of botulinum toxin
- Applicant name
- Solstice Neurosciences, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Société de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention Art 111(1) 1973European Patent Convention R 57 1973
- Keywords
- Main request: Added subject-matter (no); Broadening of the scope of protection (no); Clarity and support in the description (yes); Amendments acc.. by the grounds of opposition (yes); Remittal (yes)
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance for further prosecution on the basis of claims 1 to 22 of the main request filed with the grounds of appeal dated 3 April 2006, with the proviso that claim 11 is made dependent not from claim 10 but from claim 1.