T 2279/08 of 30.11.2011
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2011:T227908.20111130
- Date of decision
- 30 November 2011
- Case number
- T 2279/08
- Online on
- 4 April 2012
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 97914289.0
- IPC class
- A23D 9/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Microbial oil containing a polyunsaturated fatty acid and method of producing oil from pasteurised and granulated biomass
- Applicant name
- DSM IP Assets B.V.
- Opponent name
- Suntory Liquors Limited
- Board
- 3.3.09
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention R 80
- Keywords
- Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Clarity - not objectionable
Novelty (yes): No unambiguous disclosure of the meaning of a feature in an example of a prior art document; non-enabling disclosure of the example
Inventive step (yes)
Amendments occasioned by an opposition ground (yes) - Catchword
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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 opposition division with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of claims 1 to 23 according to the main request filed with the letter dated 6 October 2009 after any necessary consequential adaptation of the description and the figures.