European Patent Office

T 1477/15 vom 23.02.2017

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T147715.20170223
Datum der Entscheidung
23. Februar 2017
Aktenzeichen
T 1477/15
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
01114582.8
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
Nicht verteilt (D)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
A ready-to-use urinary catheter assembly
Name des Antragstellers
Coloplast A/S
Name des Einsprechenden
Hollister Limited
Dansac A/S
Kain-Märk Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Medical4You B.V.
Kammer
3.2.02
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Admissibility of the appeals (yes)
Insufficiency of disclosure - admitted (no)
Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Admissibility - auxiliary requests 3 and 9 (yes)
Remittal to the department of first instance - (no)
Admissibility of a new line of argument during oral proceedings (no)
Added subject-matter - auxiliary request 3 (no)
Clarity - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Amendments to description occasioned by ground for opposition (no)
Right to withdraw requests (yes)
Orientierungssatz
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The appeal of the patent proprietor is dismissed.

3. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of:

Claims 1 to 11 of new auxiliary request 3 as filed on 17 November 2016;

Description of new auxiliary request 3, paragraphs [0001] to [0039], as filed on 23 February 2017;

Figures 1 to 6 and 12 of the patent as granted.